What could be a contentious plan to build 40 townhouses on the 4.54 acres at 1047 North Main Street will be the last item on the Wake Forest Planning Board’s agenda Tuesday, April 2. The meeting begins at 7:30 in the second-floor meeting room in Wake Forest Town Hall.
There has been at least one protest petition about the project proposed by 11 Investments, David Williams Jr. of Focus Design in Wake Forest, and Red Line Engineering in Garner. They are requesting conditional use residential mixed use zoning with approval of the master plan. The plan has a major street and a cross street with stubs to the two adjoining properties.
The property is owned by the son of the former owner, Albert Dudley who lives in Virginia, and the house is dilapidated. The property is between The Meadows subdivision and an historic house on several acres.
The meeting will begin with a change to the Unified Development Ordinance allowing the town, with certain conditions, to accept private streets into the town’s system. Last year Kenneth Christie, acting for the other property owners along Heritage Spring Circle, asked the town to accept their street for town maintenance. An investigation by Director of Engineering Eric Keravuori found there were eight or nine other streets in the same situation – built as part of a development but never the developer never petitioned for their approval by the town. During the town board retreat earlier this year the commissioners asked Keravuori to find a way to accept the streets. There are several conditions for approval; he said the UDO would be a better solution than an ordinance.
Two other agenda items both are for rezoning to residential mixed use.
Donna Rollins Pace and Sarah Glover Bridges are asking to rezone their combined lots on Wake Union Church Road to conditional use mixed residential. The plan is to build housing for elderly people on the 4.88 acres, and the condition for the rezoning is that only elderly housing can be built.
Alhambra Holdings wants to rezone the property at 218 South Main Street owned by Kevin Rivers, to conditional use residential mixed use with conditions limiting the use to a single-family detached dwelling, accessory dwelling units and professional use.
All the hearing are legislative, meaning people may testify without being sworn or being a professional, such as a traffic engineer.
