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Pinehurst’s Village Council took a major step this week toward establishing new frameworks for reviewing and approving development in two key areas of the village.
Long-simmering tensions between the Pinehurst village manager and a village council member reached a tipping point on Thursday, with both parties accusing one another of creating a hostile work environment.
It will be at least another few months before Pinehurst reopens its approval pipeline for development projects in the Pinehurst South and Village Place neighborhoods.
Pinehurst’s leaders are divided over the prospect of extending the moratorium on development in two key areas of the village, more than two years beyond its original adoption.