Richard Burr testifies in obscure neighborhood dispute over pizza restaurant

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) cooked up a shock cameo in an area pizza skirmish in a North Carolina seaside city earlier this month.

The senator appeared at a city assembly on Sept. 7 to weigh in on a dispute between native restaurant Nags Head Pizza Firm and neighboring residents over the privateness and security issues about having such a bustling enterprise in such shut proximity to their properties.

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“Right here’s our ask,” Burr instructed the Nags Head city board of commissioners, Outer Financial institution Voice reported Wednesday. “Let’s roll the allow again to take-out solely till there's a compliance with public security, vegetation, set-back necessities, and the parking that’s required for a facility like this. It’s a public security problem.”

Nags Head Pizza Firm has been in enterprise since 2017, but it surely opened a brand new location close to S. Virginia Path on about Independence Day, in response to the report. Whereas the proprietor insists that the ability is in a location that has held a business zone for over 60 years, locals have been rankled by their new neighbor.

To the chagrin of Burr and his like-minded neighbors, Nags Head City Supervisor Andy Garman wrote on Sept. 16 to neighbors contending that Nags Head Pizza Firm is essentially in compliance with its laws and solely must make just a few changes.

Garman additionally mentioned that the pizza firm seems amenable to erecting a vegetative display close to the perimeter of its enterprise to assist protect neighbors from its patrons.

Burr, who reportedly owns a trip house in a close-by lot, was one in all seven Republican senators who voted to question former President Donald Trump for his phrases and actions on Jan. 6, 2021, and has opted to not vie for reelection.

The Republican has confronted scrutiny over a slew of "well-timed inventory gross sales" during which he evaded over $80,000 in losses through the starting phases of the COVID-19 pandemic, in response to not too long ago unsealed court docket paperwork. Justice Division officers retrieved his telephone as a part of an insider buying and selling investigation. The investigation has since concluded, and he was not charged.

The Washington Examiner reached out to a Burr consultant for remark.