More about Fred Fletcher and the City of Washington NC
Okay, I can read as well as the next person. I can also google pretty darn well also. So I’m wondering about something I found while digging around the Internets. Fred Fletcher, Jr. Flim-Flam Supreme. Mr. Slight of Development Hand. Abuser of the public trust…
I’m hoping someone can explain this:
Fred Fletcher, Jr, owns according to public record, 6870 Clarks Neck Road. (If we looked it up correctly)
The City of Washington and Moss Property Partners, in June 2006, applied for and were issued a permit for a marina/pier AT THAT ADDRESS.
Oh my goodness! Little genius that I am — I just figured out how Fred Fletcher does it, how he gets everyone to march behind his music man land schemes!
He gets local or state regulatory boards to "agree in concept" with his plans. Then Fletcher goes out into the community he’s planning to "develop" and acts like he already has permits in hand.
READ ON-
As in this August 2006 (remember that date, it will come up again) Clean Water Management Trust Fund Meeting agenda:
Mr. Fletcher has submitted maps illustrating his request. These maps will be available for review at the August meeting. Mr. Fletcher has requested that the Board decide if it supports his request in concept. If the Board approves his request, Mr. Fletcher will draft the conservation easement amendment for review by the Board in September. The Council of State must also approve the request.
If someone would start digging, they unearth a mound of speculative excess on Fletcher’s part.
Read more about the property at 6870 Clark’s Neck Road (let’s all drive out there next week, shall we?):
From February 2004, fully two years before Fletcher made his request to the CWMTF Board of Directors in August 2006.
12:45 pm P-D. 2004A-012 - NC Coastal Land Trust’s Fletcher Tract/The Preserve in Pitt County - Robin Hammond & Leland Heath (Potential Action Item)
In 2004 the Board approved a grant of up to $241,000 to assist the NC Coastal Land Trust (NCCLT) with acquisition of a conservation easement on 178 acres of floodplain and 25 acres of uplands in Pitt County on the Tar River in a conservation subdivision project. NCCLT implemented the project.
Pitt County’s Subdivision Ordinance requires compliance with its rules for subdivisions of land into parcels of ten acres or less. Its rules require a paved road to be built to State standards.
On June 18, 2006 Mr. Fred Fletcher, Jr., the property owner, requested permission from CWMTF to subdivide the property (CWMTF’s standard conservation easement prohibits subdivision without permission.) and to further reduce the density of his project from 9 lots to 4 lots, including an existing residence. The change would increase the size of the lots such that a paved road built to State standards would not be required. NCCLT supports Mr. Fletcher’s request.
If the subdivision results in the release of any area from the CWMTF conservation easement, the request will have to be reviewed and approved by the Council of State.
At the July 9-10, 2006 Board meeting CWMTF staff recommended that Mr. Fletcher prepare the draft documents to amend the conservation easement and to provide a map illustrating his request. The Committee and Board voted to defer the request until documents and a map were provided.
Mr. Fletcher has submitted maps illustrating his request. These maps will be available for review at the August meeting. Mr. Fletcher has requested that the Board decide if it supports his request in concept. If the Board approves his request, Mr. Fletcher will draft the conservation easement amendment for review by the Board in September. The Council of State must also approve the request.
2004A-012 NC Coastal Land Trust – Fletcher Tract, Tranters Creek, Pitt County, Coastal Plain Region
Summary
The NC Coastal Land Trust requests a revised amount of $295,000 $286,874 of a $348, 560 (15% 16% match) to protect Tranters Creek in the Tar-Pamlico River Basin. The project would purchase a conservation easement on 210.2 acres of a 225-acre tract. The entire property is in the 100-year floodplain, with 178.6 of wetlands and 31.6 acres of upland to be placed under permanent easement. The remaining 15 acres of upland (not a part of, but interspersed throughout, the CWMTF purchased easement) will become a conservation development: that is, 8 homesites, along with an existing homesite with access to Tranters Creek, will be developed, interspersed with conservation easement tracts along the wetland fringe. The 8 homesites will not have access through the CWMTF-purchased wetlands to the creek. There will be a common pier/dock from land not in the easement. Additionally, the remaining upland easement (approx. 32 acres) will remain as pasture and have a 2,000 5,000 ft2 barn for 16 horses, 5-6 small horse walk-in sheds, an impervious driveway and riding trails. The above equestrian facility will result in less than 1% impervious surface. The wetland CE is valued at $350 per acre, and the upland at $7,600 per acre, for a total value of $303,660. The landowner will accept $250,000, for a bargain-sale match of $52,660. The tract is adjacent to a Significant Natural Heritage Area, and could potentially be developed with 48 homesites. The total cost to CWMTF is about $20 per linear foot of buffer.
Water Quality Benefits
* Establish 210 acres of riparian buffer (variable widths) of 14,868 linear feet along the Tar River and Tranters Creek (C, NSW).
* Significant Natural Heritage Area.
Scope of Work
* Place permanent conservation on 210.2 acres.
* Monitor the easement in perpetuity.
Conditions
* The permanent conservation easement shall conform, with the exception of the horse facilities and pasture, to the standard CWMTF model easement, and shall be placed under conservation easement with the State of North Carolina.
* Submit, if possible, an electronic survey of the properties that depicts the total length of stream buffered, indicating separately the segments buffered on both sides and those on one side.
* Impervious surfaces on the upland horse facility to be less than 1%.
* Homesite impervious surfaces will be less than 10%.
* Horse trails to be a minimum of 15 feet from stream edge; stream crossings to comply with NC Agriculture Cost-Share Program livestock crossing BMPs.
* Manure to either be disposed of offsite or land applied at agronomic rates to the pasture.
* Plans for handling and treatment of drainage from horse-grooming facility to be provided to CWMTF and subsequently implemented.
* Pasture may be maintained by appropriate pasture management practices, in keeping with water quality protection.
Budget Notes
Match as described in the revised budget, and is in the form of a bargain sale of $52,660.
Staff Recommendation 2/8/04
Staff supports funding the requested amount up to $295,000, but wishes to make clear that this would be considered more of a conservation development project. CWMTF has not funded a project quite like this, and staff seeks additional guidance from the Board. [that's got Fred Fletcher's signature all over it.]
Committee Recommendation 2/8/04
Motion by Wright, 2nd by Cragnolin, to defer until all new information is available for rescoring. Motion carries.
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