. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Local governments in coastal North Carolina are in the midst of drawing up plans for how their lands will be used in the future. Sea Grant research projects aimed at bringing together information useful in managing coastal lands should be helpful to planners, citizens and local officials. UNC law professor Tom Schoenbaum is taking a legal look at how counties and municipalities put plans for land use outside of "areas of environmental concern" into effect. Development within those specially-desig
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. Local governments in coastal North Carolina are in the midst of drawing up plans for how their lands will be used in the future. Sea Grant research projects aimed at bringing together information useful in managing coastal lands should be helpful to planners, citizens and local officials. UNC law professor Tom Schoenbaum is taking a legal look at how counties and municipalities put plans for land use outside of "areas of environmental concern" into effect. Development within those specially-designated environmentally sensitive areas will be regu- lated by a permit system, administered by the counties and state. But it will be up to the counties to implement land use plans outside of "areas of environmental ; From his study Schoenbaum will make recommendations on the legal tools governments can use to implement planning. Schoenbaum will also look at how govern- ment red tape can be reduced and other problems relating to the legalities of planning. A study that got underway in August and will continue through June promises to provide a handy tool for formulating development policy that reflects the ecological characteristics of different types of coastal environments. A handbook for the non-scientist, a major product of the study, will describe and provide scientific information on ecological processes at work in various types of shore environ- ments. It will also describe alternative development policies that are compatible with specific environments. Policies to be described in the book will take ecological processes into consideration. Led by David Brower of UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Urban and Regional Studies, the project brings together expertise from marine science, law and planning. In their ongoing research, ECU scientists Mike O'Connor, Vince Bellis and Stan Riggs will map shoreline erosion along the estuarine shores of counties in the easte
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