Next Tuesday night, June 2, expect to hear a lot about the traffic plan for the proposed Bobby Murray Chevrolet dealership on Capital Boulevard during the Wake Forest Planning Board’s meeting in town hall that begins at 7:30 p.m.
About 50 of the 250 neighbors in the Shearon Farms subdivision that borders the site – now a golf driving range – were at the required neighborhood meeting on May 7 and worried that the traffic to and from the dealership would impact their streets.
The state Department of Transportation plans to convert Capital Boulevard to a limited access throughway with access roads on either side. Because of that plan DOT will not allow additional driveway access to Capital.
The plan is to continue to use the right-in, right-out driveway for the driving range as one access/egress and to provide two full access driveways to the dealership from Shearon Farms Avenue along with a future full access by a connection to Meadstone Way to Urial Drive (both subdivision streets) that lead to Burlington Mills Road. The Shearon Farms Avenue entrance is directly across from the entrance to the former Burlington Mills plant, and that plant is just south of the Capitol Ford dealership with an entrance across from Burlington Mills road.
The hearing about the requested rezoning to conditional use highway business – observed by both the planning board and town board members – will allow all interested parties to voice their opinions and information without being sworn.
There will also be unlimited comments about a request to rezone 120 acres in the Austin Creek subdivision from a mix of residential and open space uses to a different mix, all of them conditional residential and open space uses, and approval of the revision of the subdivision’s master plan. The engineer is Bob Zumwalt with the John R. McAdams Company and Lennar Carolinas in Morrisville owns the land which lies between a part of the Austin Creek subdivision and Bowling Green subdivision. The two subdivisions will be linked with connecting streets.
For the third hearing, which is first on the agenda and is quasi-judicial, all the testimony will be sworn with no opinions considered. Nexus Global, which has an office in the South Forest Industrial Park off Burlington Mills Road, want to build an office building a triangular vacant lot of 4.2 acres in the 900 block of Durham Road just to the west of its intersection with Retail Drive and Hampton Way Drive. The request is for approval of the master site plan. Nexus Global is an international company which provides consulting, training, coaching and technical solutions to businesses.
The planning board, which is now short one of its nine members since Shirley Sulick resigned, will consider the three requests and make recommendations for the town board after the hearings. The town commissioners will discuss and vote on the recommendations at their regular meeting June 16.
