Circulation 13,000 Free October 18, 2013 No PUD Intended By Linda Cicoira their opposition at a public hearing Residents in Northern Accomack conducted by the Accomack Board of don’t want a Planned Unit Develop- Supervisors Wednesday. Action was ment (PUD) to come to Wattsville. delayed until Nov. 20 as requested by They don’t want to share their water. Supervisor Laura Belle Gordy who was They don’t want a sewage treatment absent due to an illness in the family. plant. They don’t want congestion and The county’s Planning Commission more traffic lights. They don’t believe recommended the supervisors deny the developer’s estimates on the jobs the Bridge Hill Conditional Rezoning it will bring. And they don’t think the Amendment requested by developer proposal will ever come to fruition. Chris Carbaugh and his lawyer, Mark About 50 of them, mostly from Baumgartner. The commissioners said surrounding areas like Atlantic and specific proffers requested by the panel Greenbackville, turned out to show were not provided, and the amendment is inconsistent with the 2006 rezoning and Comprehensive Plan. Northampton Acting Commission Chairman George Parker told the supervisors of Moves To Cut two issues of particular concern. He HOSED Photo by James Fluhart said while Baumgartner talks about Onley Volunteer Fire & Rescue Assistant Chief Bo Mason looks on as 181 lots at Bridge Hill, there is noth- Cadets David Strautz and William Thomas Hines use the firehose on a Red Tape ing in the plan that limits the number. recent control burn exercise. (See related story on Page 4.) By Ron West Parker also said, “Roads depicted are In an effort to simplify the county conceptual only. There wasn’t anything Zoning Ordinance, Northampton super- in here that tied graphics to proffers.” visors Wednesday reviewed a draft of Without a wastewater plan for the Traffic Crashes Claim 3 Lives proposed changes to the 2000 and 2009 first request, the PUD application also By Linda Cicoira it crossed the centerline and struck a ordinances that are currently used to de- was denied by the commissioners for Three men died in two collisions, and northbound 1998 Lincoln Town Car termine who can build what and where. what is now being referred to as Town a third traffic accident injured 13 trav- driven by Costin. The Expedition then County Development Director Center at Wallops Island Spaceport. elers last week on the Eastern Shore. overturned and caught fire. Charles McSwain and the Planning The commission contended, “Place- Irvin T. Costin, 65, of Onancock and In another collision, Ernest J. Gib- Department staff have been working ment of a wastewater treatment facil- Juan A. Escobedo Jr., 32, of Bowling bons Jr., 74, of Fruitland, Md., was driv- to streamline the Zoning Ordinance to ity … to serve the neighboring PUD is Green, Fla., died in a crash last Friday ing a flatbed tractor-trailer south on have it ready for public review and a not appropriate on property planned near Painter, according to State Police Lankford Highway on Thursday, Oct. vote by the supervisors by early 2014. for a sizeable small-lot subdivision.” spokeswoman Corinne Geller. 10, near Fisher’s Corner when he ran While the previous documents con- Commissioners also found the “treat- Trooper J.D. Kirk is continuing to off the right side of the road, went about sumed reams of paper and were ex- ment facility size and scale is not in investigate the cause of the head-on 900 feet, struck a ditch and overturned tremely difficult for the average coun- keeping with the Future Land Use accident, which was reported at nearly at about 10:30 a.m., Geller reported. ty resident to understand, the draft Section of the Comprehensive Plan.” 8:10 p.m. on Big Pine Road less than a Gibbons was not wearing a seatbelt ordinance consists of roughly 150 Baumgartner told the supervisors mile north of Shell Bridge Road. Esc- and was partially ejected. He died at pages and is likely to be much more he would stipulate the 181 lots and obedo was driving a 2007 Ford Expe- the scene. Police believe the crash was (Continued on Page 12) (Continued on Page 13) dition south on Big Pine Road when (Continued on Page 3) 2 • EastErn shorE Post • octobEr 18, 2013 Tour of Williamsburg Hospital Gives Glimpse of What’s In Store for Shore By Ron West tures a state-of-the-art emergency much improved medical services over winter of 2015. Riverside Health System officials room, lab and imaging department, of what is currently available on the Still to be decided is what to do with offered a preview of the Shore’s new as well as spacious patient rooms Shore. Groundbreaking is scheduled the current medical facility in Nas- hospital when they conducted a walk- that closely resemble what might be for Oct. 22. sawadox once the new hospital. No an- through of their newest medical facil- found in a hotel. The new hospital will be about one swers were forthcoming from the Riv- ity in Williamsburg last week. The Williamsburg hospital offers a and a half times the size of its Wil- erside officials during the tour. The 110,000-square-foot, two-story food service where the patient can or- liamsburg counterpart, having approx- Nor did they address what will be- medical complex, located on Route 60 der from a menu and have food deliv- imately 60 beds and three operating come of the wastewater facility that is nestled between colonial Williams- ered when desired. rooms, compared to 40 beds and two currently services multiple buildings burg and Busch Gardens. Outwardly, Many of the amenities at the new- operating rooms. in the Nassawadox area or what emer- looking much like a shopping mall, est Riverside facility will be incorpo- With groundbreaking scheduled for gency-care facility will be available in the new Riverside Doctors’ Hospital rated in the new hospital to be built be- later this month, the three-story Shore Northampton County and where it will is situated on a 380-acre site. 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Crockett suggested the committee Accomack supervisors voted 6-3 Wednesday to ap- he rents two parcels to hunt clubs and allows friends meet before and after rifle season. The supervisors point an advisory committee to solve issues between to hunt on other property. None use dogs, he said. agreed to select members at their next meeting. landowners and those who hunt deer with dogs even Supervisors Wanda Thornton, Kay Lewis and Ron In the same 6-3 vote, the supervisors turned down though a 2002 committee with the same goals was Wolff favored abolishing deer hunting with dogs. Thornton’s motion to ask for the ban if violations are scrapped without results. “I can’t go along with this,” Thornton argued. “We reported by February. The majority said the action Hunt clubs were urged to handle members who owe it to the people to protect their property rights.” would be premature. violate laws. The supervisors also advised the public “I don’t have a dog in this fight,” said Wolff, who to report illegal activities to police. doesn’t hunt. “As a fisherman, there are a ton of regu- At a hearing earlier this month, property owners lations. … Hunting deer with dogs is like fishing in a ~ Fatalities ~ complained that dog hunters trespass with guns and barrel. I don’t see much sport in it. If you can’t get a (Continued From Front Page) intimidate them, and the dogs destroy property. Still- deer … in Accomack without a dog there’s something hunters also argued dogs run the deer off and confron- wrong with you. They’re everywhere.” caused by a medical condition, Geller added. tations between gun carriers could lead to injury. Crockett said that before the hearing, he considered At nearly 6:10 a.m. Saturday, Jeffrey Williams, 59, The dog hunters contend using the hounds is the asking for requirements that dog hunters register with of New York was driving a commercial passenger bus only way to control the large deer population and hunt clubs, use at least 200 continuous acres for the south on Lankford Highway in Machipongo when it that the law allows them to retrieve their animals.