RST Fiber is working on its plan to build a high-speed fiber network to serve businesses and homes in Wake Forest. It recently submitted plans to the town to install the cable in local and state streets and roads to run north from the Wake Forest Town Hall to Henderson. Construction will likely begin early next year.
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You probably noticed that some pecan trees were cut and some grading has begun to provide handicap access at Holding Park, which is a first.
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No one ever stepped forward to move or deconstruct the small white house on Brooks Street next to the Police Department substation in the original town hall. As a result, now the town is working with the Wake Forest Fire Department to use the building as a training burn. The windows are boarded up; no word on when that will take place.
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The plan to replace and improve the street lighting and replace the sidewalks on North Main Street is still moving through the approval process and most recently was approved in November by the Historic Preservation Commission. All the utility conduit will be installed by boring rather than trenching to preserve the trees.
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The three applications before the Wake Forest Planning Department’s Technical Review Committee in November were for existing subdivisions.
Harris Engineering requested a modification to the plans for the townhouse portion of Bishops Grant to be built on 8.51 acres off Middegame Way. It was originally approved in 2009.
The Nau Company wants to build a townhouse section on 9.23 acres off Coach Lantern Avenue in the Stonegate at St. Andrews subdivision. The existing zoning is conditional use GR-10.
And in Phase 3B of Stonegate, the John R. McAdams Company has submitted a subdivision construction plan for 23.3 acres off Rainy Lake Road. Existing zoning is conditional use RG-10.
