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BASE Governmental Affairs Directors act as advocates for the development industry and closely monitor activity at the state, regional and local level from the North Carolina General Assembly to city and county meetings - anything that affects the growth and development industry.

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Credibility, Leadership, Expertise..... BASE has a single mission to promote public policies which encourage economic growth, job creation and a healthy real estate, homebuilding, land use and development industry.

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"Unbelievable! BASE was there for us at the beginning, middle, and end providing us with key information and foresight…It's great to see there are organizations like BASE out there that are willing to go the extra mile to satisfy their members." - Jon Vincent, JTV Business & Management Consultant

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 "Well worth the money! I’ve been working in this industry well over 20 years, and this is the lowest cost, highest value work I have ever seen. I always knew the regulatory pressures that our industry faced, but at least now I know that there is an organization fighting and winning on our behalf." - Kevin Hine, Duplin Land Development, LLC, Exec. VP/GM River Landing

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“BASE has been one of the best business decisions I have made!  There is no other organization like BASE that covers such a broad area of issues that affect both residential and commercial interests.” - Steve Niemeyer, CEO Wrightsville Builders

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DWQ - Level Spreader/Veg. Filter Workshop PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 April 2010 15:41

Level Spreader – Vegetated Filter Strip workshop

On Friday, April 23, 2010, a “BMPs for Seasonally High Water Tables” workshop will be held in Wrightsville Beach, NC, at the Shell Island Resort. This full-day workshop will focus on two BMPs (Level Spreader – VFS and Water Harvesting Systems) that have application on landscapes with seasonally high water tables. Special considerations for coastal and coastal plain issues will be discussed. 

 NCDENR officials as well as NCSU faculty will discuss the new design standards associated with NCDENR’s LS-VFS guidance. At the Wrightsville Beach workshop, attendees will also learn how to use Rainwater Harvester™,  NCSU’s water harvesting model that has been recommended for use by NC DENR. 

A limited number of seats remains for the Wrightsville Beach workshop.
Please visit: http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/stormwater/training.htmhttp://www.bae.ncsu.edu/stormwater/training.htm for workshop details and to REGISTER ONLINE. For questions about registration, please contact Cathy Smith at 919-515-6780 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Sen. Basnight Addresses NC20 PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 01 April 2010 07:08

Source:  NEWS 14 Carolina

NEW BERN – State Senate Pro Tem Marc Basnight addressed the issue of coastal insurance rates at a conference Thursday in New Bern.  Click here for the full storyClick here for the full story

Basnight spoke at a meeting of NC 20, a group of representatives from 20 coastal counties that formed to fight increasing insurance rates. He told the group sticking together is the only way for coastal counties to be heard on issues like homeowner insurance rate hikes.

Last year, some coastal counties saw more than a 20-percent jump in rates.

"Mainly it was the insurance companies trying to keep themselves not only solvent but to make a great deal of money," he said. "Do I have proof of that? Not in writing,"

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ELG's - North Carolina is First PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 26 March 2010 08:12

New Effluent Limit Rules Going Into Effect One State at a Time

One state at a time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new Effluent Limit Guidelines for builder and developer storm water management permits are now beginning to take effect.

North Carolina is the first state to officially recognize the rule, which tightens restrictions on residential development of all sizes and, for the first time, includes a strict numeric limit on the turbidity — or amount of sediment — of water that flows from larger construction sites after a rainstorm.

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