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When is losing the entire value of your property due to government regulation, not an “undue hardship”? According to the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission, the answer is whenever your home is on the coast.
In October 2016, Michael and Cathy Zito’s Nags Head beach house burned to t
When is losing the entire value of your property due to government regulation, not an “undue hardship”? According to the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission, the answer is whenever your home is on the coast. In October 2016, Michael and Cathy Zito’s Nags Head beach house burned to the ground. Luckily no one was hurt, but the bureaucratic nightmare they faced as they attempted to rebuild was incredibly painful. The Zitos’ house was built in 1982 when it was landward of the legal setback line for ocean building. By the time the house burned down in 2016, natural erosion had moved the ocean closer to the Zitos’ house. When the Zitos asked the Town of Nags Head for permission to rebuild on the same footprint as their previous home, their request was denied because it was no longer 60 feet from the vegetation line. Not only could Michael and Cathy not rebuild their home on their property, but they also couldn’t build anything at all. Their lot was now only good for standing and looking at their beautiful ocean view.
Town of Nags Head getting ready for the next beachfill April 15, 2021, by Zlatan Hrvacevic The Town of Nags Head, North Carolina, is planning a beach restoration project to replace sand lost during 2019’s Hurricane Dorian. Construction is expected to take place over the summer of 2022. The beach restoration project will place 567,000 cubic yards of sand on 4.45 miles of Nags Head’s beach in the southern part of the town, from about Jennette’s Pier near Mile Post 16, south to the corporate limits abutting Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The estimated $13.9 million project cost will be funded by a FEMA/North Carolina disaster assistance grant of $12,063,269, a North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Water Resources Coastal Storm Damage Mitigation grant of $1,408,247, and a contribution of approximately $480,480 from the Town of Nags Head’s beach nourishment capital reserve.