
    RONALD M. HUGHES, JEFFREY LANE CLEMMONS, CLARENCE Y. SYKES, OLIVER J. & SHIRLEY W. FOWLER, BARRY STEELE, DONNA K. ATKINS, SOUTHPORT ELECTRICAL SERVICE, INC., KEITH R. & HOLLEY G. ROGERS, DONALD B. & ANN T. STEPHENSON, JULIUS & MARTHA G. CARTERET, CARMICHAEL CONSTRUCTION CO., INC., GREGORY A. & VICKIE M. POTTER, MARVIN CARROLL & JULIE J. MARTIN, Petitioners v. TOWN OF OAK ISLAND, Respondent
    No. 361A03
    (Filed 5 December 2003)
    Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 158 N.C. App.-, 580 S.E.2d 704 (2003), affirming a judgment entered 29 May 2001 by Judge James F. Ammons, Jr. in Superior Court, Brunswick County. Heard in the Supreme Court 18 November 2003.
    
      C. Wes Hodges, II, P.L.L.C., by C. Wes Hodges, II, for petitionerappellees.
    
    
      Roger Lee Edwards, RA., by Roger Lee Edwards, for respondent-appellant.
    
    
      Andrew L. Romanet, Jr., General Counsel, and Gregg F. Schwitzgebel, III, Senior Assistant General Counsel, on behalf of the North Carolina League of Municipalities, amicus curiae.
    
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.  