Owner since ’69. frequent visitor. Primary benefit is remote nature. Commercial developmenrt would require Coounty services, police, fire, water, road development, drainage. All this would be expensive and degrade the natural beauty. PLEASE DON’T DO THIS!

We have been a homeowner in Monteray shores since 2001. After reviewing the proposal and the bridge concept, it is obvious that it will cause irreparable harm to the Corolla environment and the Corolla way of life. The project will change forever the peace and beauty that have attracted people to this area for years. The Corolla Wild Horses are the last truly wild horses on the east coast, nowhere else can you see wild Mustangs walking along the beach and grazing among beach homes. They are an integral part of what draws visitors to the northern beaches every year, however as development encroaches, the horse’s natural habitat is being destroyed.
The same fate will also fall on the Tourists now flocking to Corolla. Once the tourists leave Corolla, the Northern Beaches will become ghost towns. Currituck County will lose their largest source of tax revenue.

Since 1994 NCDOT has spent Millions of Dollars conducting studies of the traffic condition on NC12 and US 158, and they still don’t understand the problem. On Saturdays and Sundays between Mid June and early September, a total of 10 Weekends or 24 days out of the year, visitors flock to the Northern Beaches. However to get there they must sit at a left turn light on US 158 after entering the Island. This traffic light causes the traffic to back up over the Wright Memorial Bridge and on to the Mainland. The beauty of the Natural Environment of the Outer banks will be destroyed if the mid-Currituck bridge is built and NC 12 is widened to accommodate 24 days out of the year of heavy traffic