A subdivision proposed at the edge of the seminary campus and along the most scenic entrance to Wake Forest has been withdrawn from consideration, Planning Director Chip Russell told the planning board and town board members Tuesday night.
“Scratch through that,” Russell said about the listing for the Paschal subdivision on the planning board agenda. It was listed as one of four projects that could be heard in future months that would require quasi-judicial hearings.
After the meeting, Russell said he had received an email from Richard Paschal who, with his mother, Marguerite, owns the 14 acres on the north side of Durham Road (N.C. 98) from the Paschal Golf Course east to the large white house on a hill that his grandfather, Wake Forest College Professor George Washington Paschal, built for his large family.
Paschal told Russell that Sanford Bailey, the subdivision developer, had withdrawn and that he, Paschal, now intends to sell the property to the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
The subdivision proposed by Bailey’s Geer Street Properties, would have built 17 single-family lots on what has been called the Paschal pasture and some of the golf course.
The planning board unanimously recommended adoption of changes in the Unified Development Ordinance and then heard a presentation by town attorney Eric Vernon about special use permits, quasi-judicial hearings and the planning board’s role in these.
