. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. workers or shopkeepers, is drawn from Dare County. "A bridge would be good for all of us," says Norris Austin, the Corolla postmaster and a Currituck native. "It's a golden op- portunity to really make employment for the native people. "Once development has come, I don't see why rural and coastal North Carolina can't jump on the bandwagon," he says. Others aren't so excited. Some folks are weary of servicing the rich out-of-staters who live on the beach. They've been catering to th
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. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. workers or shopkeepers, is drawn from Dare County. "A bridge would be good for all of us, " says Norris Austin, the Corolla postmaster and a Currituck native. "It's a golden op- portunity to really make employment for the native people. "Once development has come, I don't see why rural and coastal North Carolina can't jump on the bandwagon, " he says. Others aren't so excited. Some folks are weary of servicing the rich out-of-staters who live on the beach. They've been catering to the beach folks, acting as maids, cooks, guides and grounds- keepers, since the days when the hunt clubs were masters of the banks. They're dubious of further growth that could turn isolated Currituck County into the hodgepodge of commercial and resi- dential development seen along the Dare County beaches. Riggs says that won't happen. "Commercial holdings are probably five percent or less along the beach, " says the developer. "We have taken the position to work together for quality development. "We're selling ocean, sand, beach, hunting, fishing, surfing and sun. We want to maintain a healthy environment." But some folks don't buy his sales pitch. "I liked Corolla like it was, " says Shirley Austin, a Currituck banks native. "I realize that it couldn't stay that way, and I really thought the development would not go this fast. "As long as it stayed residential, I didn't Norris Austin mind too badly. I don't want to see hotels and motels and all the businesses." Across the sound in Waterlily and Pop- lar Branch, mainlanders are worried too. They question the effect the bridge and further development will have on the sound, the waterfowl and the fish that have meant their livelihood. For now, Currituck remains divided. Some like it, others don't. But most seem caught—caught between the promise of opportunity and the tug of a herit