Shoreway is a 340-foot long residential street of the Bayshores development near N.C. 73. The road was built in the 1980s and other roads in the neighborhood were added to the town system in 2002 and 2006. But Shoreway Drive was never added.

Buchanan said his best guess on the reasons for Shoreway’s omission was that it did not have enough occupied residential units to qualify for acceptance when the other roads in the neighborhood were added. He said he believes the road was built to the same standards as the other accepted roads in the neighborhood and that it had simply been overlooked in the years after the other roads were added.

Bill Fespeman, a Shoreway Drive resident and one of the petitioners seeking to have the road accepted, was at the meeting and did his best to make sure it wasn’t overlooked this time.

“I’m not here to speak as to whether it was built to DOT standards,” Fesperman told the board during a public comment segment of the meeting. “I‘m just here to let you know I am here.”

Buchanan estimated that it would cost between $20,000 and $21,000 to bring the road up to town standards, but the board voted unanimously to add it to the system.