I've had the pleasure of meeting many of the permanant residents of the Hatteras area in the past, and I wouldn't classify many of them as "rich". That is why the additional title is so misleading. This isn't just a private road to beachfront villas, it is a state road to a hard working village that is 150 years old.
Exactly. The majority of the high dollar homes are up north in Corolla.
There's a lot of history on the OBX. And there's a lot of value (tourist dollar and otherwise) to people being able to drive to Hatteras.
Again, if they choose to live there, let them pay their own way.
I understand that all the people there, whether rich vacation folk or the hardworking watermen, are all very nice people. This not a class warfare thing, it's a whats fair is fair thing.
If they have the right to a taxpayer supported comfortable beachfront lifestyle with paved road access, then I have the right to a taxpayer supported comfortable beachfront lifestyle with convienent paved access too.
And what about Corolla?. Last I heard, they have no paved road access either.
If they can pave a road throught the national park to Hatteras, how come they can't pave a road through a national park to Corolla?
A person I know retired to Corolla a few years back, and he payed his own way to get there and build. Should the taxpayers have been responsible for his expenses also?