Thursday, April 9, the Wake Forest Lions Club will host a mobile unit in the parking lot for the Wake Forest Library and the North Wake Regional Center on East Holding Avenue for free vision and hearing checks for all ages. The clinics will be conducted from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. People may also drop off their old and unused glasses, hearing aids and cell phones which will be sent to people in undeveloped countries.
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A subdivision that was turned down in December 2013, Olde Wake Forest, has resurfaced. Planning Director Chip Russell told the planning board members Tuesday night the matter had been remanded back to the town and they would probably see it on their May agenda.
Toby Hampson, the attorney with Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton who handles the town’s zoning and planning matters, said in an email that in mid-2014 Superior Court Judge Elaine Bushfan had heard the appeal of the town board’s four to one decision to deny the major subdivision request filed by the developer, Geer Street Properties, and handed down her decision in July.
“The Court effectively upheld the Town’s decision but asked the Town to provide some more explanation for its decision based on the record – hence the remand to the Board of Commissioners,” Hampson wrote. “In the interim, Geer Street Properties has submitted a new, revised site plan application for Olde Wake Forest, which is what Chip was referring to as the potential subject of the Joint Public Hearing and Planning Board meeting next month. If the revised plan is approved, it would supersede the prior plan and the need for the Board of Commissioners to take any further action on that earlier plan.”
In 2013 neighbors vigorously opposed the plan for a 10-lot infill subdivision at the northern end of the portion of North Wingate that is currently ends without connecting to the next portion.
Geer Street Properties is a limited liability corporation that was formed in 1999 by Sanford Bailey and his wife, Rena, but, according to the corporation search website maintained by the North Carolina Secretary of State’s office, was administratively dissolved in February of this year.
