The Agenda

Bethany Beach

• The Bethany Beach Communications Committee will meet on Tuesday, April 11, at 10 a.m. at the town hall.

• The Bethany Beach Architectural Guideline Development Committee for the C-1 and C-2 Zoning Districts will hold a meeting at 9 a.m. on Thursday, April 13, in the town hall.

• Bethany Beach Town Hall will be closed on Friday, April 14, in observance of Good Friday.

South Bethany

• The South Bethany Town Council will hold its regular monthly meeting on Thursday, April 13, at 7 p.m., at the town hall.

• The town of South Bethany has three open seats for town council and one seat for mayor. Applications to run in the upcoming 2006 election are being accepted until April 13. The applications are available at the town hall, 402 Evergreen Road, South Bethany, DE 19930, or may be requested by e-mail (townhall@southbethany.org) or by calling (302) 539-3653.

Fenwick Island

• The Fenwick Island Town Council will hold a workshop-without-agenda (WWA) on Saturday, April 8, at 9 a.m. at the town hall.

• The Fenwick Island Beach Committee will meet on Saturday, April 8, at 1:30 p.m. at the town hall.

• The Fenwick Island Budget Committee will meet on Monday, April 10, at 9 a.m., as part of the budget process for drafting the 2007 fiscal-year budget. Preliminary budget reviews with department heads in the police department, public works, beach patrol and administration are scheduled.

• The Fenwick Island Town Manager Search Committee will meet on Monday, April 10, at 3:30 p.m., at the town hall. This meeting may include adjournment to executive session for discussion of personnel matters.

Ocean View

The town of Ocean View will hold a workshop at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 11, in the town hall meeting room. Town officials will discuss a possible ordinance requiring addresses to be posted on mailboxes or properties.

Dagsboro

Dagsboro Town Council will hold a special meeting on Monday, April 10, at 7 p.m. in the Bethel Center (107 Clayton Street). Assistant County Engineer Russ Archut is slated to give a presentation on existing sewer capacity and proposed improvements, and council will consider continuation of the town’s contract with URS Corporation for engineering and planning consultancy, into 2006.

Sussex County

• Sussex County Council will meet on Tuesday, April 11, at 6:30 p.m., in Council Chambers at the Sussex County Administrative Office Building in Georgetown. On the agenda for discussion only: possible extension of elements of the recently-adopted Cluster Density Trade program, which in certain circumstances offers developers extra density in exchange for cash, to conditional uses and changes of zone. Council will also hold public hearings on two ordinances, one relating to the number of off-street parking spaces required for multifamily dwellings and townhouses and the other closing the Commercial (C-1) district and creating a new Commercial-Residential (CR-1) district, where residential development will be allowed only through conditional use and not by right.

• The county Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Commission will meet on Thursday, April 13, at 3 p.m., in Council Chambers. On the agenda, a conditional use request on behalf of Bethany Court LLC, for six detached, “multifamily” units on 1.3 acres, north of the Tower Shores neighborhood (near Indian Harbor Villas, north of Bethany Beach) and the two ordinances mentioned above (off-street parking, closing the C-1 district). Also, several site and landscaping plans associated with the big, 1,700-home Bayside community, west of Fenwick Island; a preliminary commercial site plan for a business on Road 361 (Muddy Neck Road, south of Ocean View) for Chad Hall; and a plat for two parcels and a right-of-way on Road 392 (Gum Road, west of Roxana), for Gerald Nocks.

DNREC

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 10, at 6 p.m., at the Millsboro Civic Center (322 Wilson Highway), regarding a request from Indian River Power for certain permit amendments. Indian River Power is requesting changes to the heat limits at three boilers, to accommodate a blend of bituminous and sub-bituminous coals. Sub-bituminous coal, or “wet coal,” most famously that coal mined in the Powder River Basin region (Wyoming), burns cleaner, but at lower temperatures than higher-sulfur, bituminous coal. According to DNREC officials, the new “heat limits” reflect — not higher temperatures — but the fact that Indian River will need to burn more coal to produce the same amount of heat. The company didn’t anticipate any additional load on the emissions quality controls already in place (electrostatic precipitators), officials said.