Bal Gra Harbor Is Coming

At Monday's Bertie County Commissioner's meeting Bal Gra Harbor's latest design was presented by Bob Koontz of Land Design, architect for Forest City Enterprises and the project manager Flannelly Development that is promoting the new facility for the owner, ALF – FCLG Bal Gra Harbor LLC.

Land Design has done a major redesign of the proposed development based on revisions in the county's subdivision ordinance that now allows Planned Unit Developments. PUD is a concept that allows for more concentrated development in some areas with land set asides to compensate.




Land Design had a new design book they passed around with details of the proposal (shown above).

Some of the highlights of the new plan are:

- Not a gated community but open to the public

- Three villages within the complex, Beach Village, Harbor Village and Salmon Creek Village

- Main entrance will be a spectacular country drive bordered by thick pine forests that hide the development

- All parts of the development will be designed to keep cars away from what will otherwise be focused on a pedestrian friendly community with miles of hiking and biking trails

- 400 acres of wetlands will be preserved in its natural state

- 200 acres of upland terrain will be preserved in its natural state

- Everything will be designed to get as many people as possible access to the magnificent water aspects of the site

- An amphitheater will be created beside the harbor to alllow music and plays here in the county with water as the backdrop


You can click on the title to the article above to see the old design (at this date anyway, I am sure the Bal Gra Harbor web site will be updated with the new design soon).

You can click on the thumbnails below to see a couple of the key pages in the book on the new plan provided by Land Design.