Next Tuesday night, Oct. 3, the town board and the planning board will sit for three public hearings. One is a request to build 72 townhouses along Gateway Commons Circle in the Gateway Commons shopping center, one is Richland Creek Community Church’s request to swap its zoning from Wake County’s residential zoning to the town’s Institutional Campus Development, and the third is a request to change the zoning on a little more than an acre along the cut-off portion of Forestville Road from county to town zoning, GR-3.
Reginald and Tracy Forte own the property on the section of Forestville Road that runs from the abandoned CSX rail line crossing and deadends before it reaches Rogers Road. The request to rezone was filed by J. Wayne Maudlin of Fuquay-Varina. Planner Courtney Jenkins concluded that although the request is “inconsistent with the applicable policies of the Wake Forest Community Plan, but it is reasonable.” Staff recommends approval.
Richland Creek Community Church is bounded by Ligon Mill Road and Burlington Mills Road and its campus is on 43 acres. It is surrounded by subdivisions built to both town and county standards. Jennifer Currin, the development services manager, says the request is reasonable and recommends approval.
Unlike the first two requests where there will need to be annexation petitions, Gateway Commons shopping center was annexed in 2008. Brendie Vega, the assistant director of the Community Development Department, recommends approval.
The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. after the town board’s work session at 5:30 p.m. In the work session, the board will hear a report from CTC Technology & Energy setting out the business case for the town developing its own broadband infrastructure. The network would connect 12 sites, seven with 1 gigabits per second and five with 10 gigabits per second. The network would pass several existing business parks and could allow for leasing in the future.
