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New Hanover County is in a legal battle with the development team, Coswald and Tribute Companies. It’s over how a parcel of land in the northern part of the county is developed.
Each political season brings the question: What power does the county commission have when it comes to directing development? The answer is complicated, but at a recent agenda meeting on January 28th, 2021 Commissioner Jonathan Barfield addressed the new board members:
“The one thing I don’t want to see happen that the county gets sued. We’ve had several missteps in the past where we’ve got it wrong and developers had sued the county and won and built what they wanted to build.”