Next Tuesday, March 7, the Wake Forest Planning Board and Town Board will hear proposals for two new subdivisions – one entirely within Franklin County – and the two together will add an estimated 849 residents in their 300 single-family homes.
The Reserve at Richland Creek with 160 homes off Stephen Taylor Road just over the Wake-Franklin county line will be the largest. The developer, Woodwright Builders in Creedmoor, anticipates the build-out will take three years.
It will be connected to Wake Forest by an extension of Haltwhistle Street in the Olde Mill Stream subdivision. The subdivision will have 55.92 acres, 39 of which were annexed and zoned residential in 2007 after an application by Larry Seibel, who previously operated the small zoo, Zoo Fauna, on his property. The developer is asking for residential zoning, GR-10 conditional district. The Seibel land is currently zoned GR-3; the portion in Franklin County’s jurisdiction is zoned for agriculture.
Bridgeport subdivision with connections to Forestville Road and Rogers Branch Road (which once was part of Rogers Road) is the smaller with 140 single-family homes on 48.44 acres. The land was assembled by the applicant, Dos Bros of Raleigh, from seven properties, including part of the former Marshall–Stroud Dairy and several small lots along Rogers Branch Road and its offshoot, Massenburg Road.
The largest piece, 35.72 acres fronting on Forestville Road that run along Sanford Creek, is owned by Philip and Linda Stroud. She is the daughter of Emmitt Marshall, who owned the farm and then went into partnership with his son-in-law, Phil. The land is just south of the small shopping center anchored by a Harris Teeter grocery store on Rogers Road and across Forestville Road from Heritage High School.
Bridgeport’s developers are asking for rezoning to general residential (GR-5) and residential mixed use conditional (RMX CD) with 103 lots in RMX CD with smaller lots than the 37 GR-5 lots. The Unified Development Ordinance places several requirements on RMX zones including roofs and eaves, building entrances, garage doors and building materials.
The planning board and town board will hold public hearings on these applications beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, in the second-floor meeting chamber in Wake Forest Town Hall. Both are legislative hearings, meaning anyone can offer an opinion without being sworn. Both developers also provided master plans to be considered along with the rezoning and they have submitted annexation petitions.
