Environmental
NC's Hatteras Island and Cape Hatteras National Seashore area present which unique environmental challenge for real estate?
ACoal ash contamination
BSevere coastal erosion, overwash, and inlet formation from storms threatening long-term property stability✓ Correct
CRadon from granite formations
DIndustrial groundwater contamination
Explanation
Cape Hatteras and Hatteras Island experience some of the most dramatic coastal erosion in the US — properties near the oceanfront face risk from storm overwash, inlet formation, and long-term shoreline migration.
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Zoning
Local government regulations that control land use by dividing areas into zones specifying permitted uses, building sizes, and densities.
VarianceOfficial permission to use land in a way that does not conform to the applicable zoning ordinance, granted by a zoning board when strict enforcement would cause undue hardship.
Eminent DomainThe power of government to take private property for public use, with the requirement to pay the owner just compensation.
Adverse PossessionA doctrine by which a person can gain legal title to another's land by openly, continuously, and adversely occupying it for a statutory period.
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