First View
2/21/08

I hope…I can communicate better with the great people I work with, and our hundreds of property owners that our company represents, and the thousands of customers we’ve hosted in Nags Head and Corolla and Ocracoke. 

When you expose ideas and ideals that you believe in, you always run the risk that someone will feel so differently on an issue, that your belief will offend someone and their view of the world.  Sometimes it’s perspective, they’re looking from a different place.  Sometimes it’s that you care about something too much or too little, or at the wrong time.  Sometimes they don’t like the person, so the idea is dismissed.

I have always tried to encourage argument.  Constructive argument points out the strengths and weaknesses of a potential course of action quickly. All the information gets on the table.  The ideas and suggestions can flow quickly, and there’s a genuine respect for the issue as viewed from a different perspective.

My hope is that future blog entries can share some of my experience with customers and clients, and our company philosophy.  I’ve had extraordinary good fortune in working with two groups of people.  I’ve worked with Village Realty since the fall of 1986 (It was Capitol Dominion back then.)  And I’ve been involved with Whitecap Linen, a commercial laundry, since its origin in 2000.  I am lucky to live on the oceanfront in Nags Head, front porch view above.

As a commissioner in Nags Head, I hope to provide an avenue for communication to the residents and taxpayers in the Town.  On that front, take a look at this timelapse photography of the water tower removal - http://65.41.45.203/tankvid.html .  It's interesting to compare these guys with the DOT groups that have been working on the ocean outfalls for the past several weeks, but it is a different type of project.  Still, it seems like the difference between paying someone by the job or by the hour.  The tower was actually down completely in one day!

The draft of the 2006 Land Use Plan was given to the Board of Commissioners last night.  This document sets the ground rules for the future of Nags Head - actions by the town have to be consistent with this plan.  Check the Town of Nags Head website for a copy, www.townofnagshead.net.  The local libraries will have them available as well.