As of press time Wednesday Wake County Superior Court Judge Donald Stephen’s order regarding the Tryon subdivision case had not been issued. He remanded the subdivision’s rezoning back to the town but the details of the ruling will not be known until the order is issued. See last week’s issue for some details of the appeals filed by Frank and Olga McCoy.
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As reported in the town manager’s monthly update for the town board, the planning department’s technical review committee met on Aug. 20 and reviewed four plans.
The first is a proposed 22-lot subdivision at the end of Ledge Rock Road (Deacons Ridge subdivision) and Cardinal Crest Lane (Cardinal Hills subdivision) owned by Nancy Dameron of Raleigh. There are 12.78 acres in the property and it is zoned conditional use residential 5.
The second is a request to expand the Heritage Station shopping center in the southeast corner where Rogers Road and Forestville Road meet anchored by Harris-Teeter grocery and owned by Weingarten out of Dallas, Texas. The expansion would add 10.88 acres and the requested rezoning is conditional neighborhood business.
The third is a request for a 381-lot single-family home subdivision for a senior community in the northwest part of Traditions subdivision. There are 128 acres in the site, and the requested rezoning is for conditional use urban residential.
Finally, the fourth request is for a construction plan for an office building of 9,000 square feet that would be on a 1.8-acre lot at 1228 Heritage Links Drive.
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The town’s public facilities department is taking bids for the renovation of the old laundromat building on Brooks Street abutting the town hall campus. It was the first laundromat in town and quite a sensation when it opened in the 1960s. After the renovation the building will house be the offices and shop for the public facilities department headed by Mickey Rochelle.
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Rochelle was dissatisfied with the plantings in the Dr. Calvin Jones Highway (N.C. 98 Bypass) west of Capital Boulevard (U.S. 1) so those were removed and new plantings are now being installed.
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Despite the rains over the weekend, the northern portion of Wake County remains in a mild drought, a condition that wraps around the rest of the county which is abnormally dry. With the driest season of the year just beginning, we may not see any relief soon. Go to http://www.ncwater.org/Drought_Monitoring/ to see for yourself.
