Brief Bits

There will be one bonus for all the people who attend the stadium show and the fireworks display on July 3 in 2018 – it will be free!

That’s right, no admission will be charged for the show because the Town of Wake Forest is planning and organizing the stadium event.

The other Fourth of July events – the children’s parade and the activities in Holding Park after the parade have always been free and will continue to be. They are still being organized by the independent Fourth of July committee.

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The technical review board met on Dec. 21 and reviewed the plans for Radford Glen subdivision on Wait Avenue which proposes 176 single-family lots on about 100 acres owned by former mayor George Mackie and/or Mackie family trusts.

You might remember this subdivision but only if you have been keeping track of the name changes. In August of 2014 the J.R. McAdam engineering firm was the applicant, the name was Quail Crossing and the plan called for 307 housing units – a mix of single-family and townhouses on 116 acres which included the only trailer park in town, Wellington Trailer Park on Wait Avenue. The land extended to Jones Dairy Road where there would be another entrance.

The plan disappeared until March and May 2015 when it was twice on the planning board agenda but named Westford Place with 100 acres. The trailer park now renamed Deerfield Crossing Mobile Home Park would be untouched. Both times it was removed from the agenda before the meeting. It may have been on a 2016 planning board agenda.

Now in 2018 the name is Radford Glen and the engineering firm is now BNK. Keep watch to see if it makes it to a planning board agenda and is actually considered.