For the second month in a row there will not be a Wake Forest Planning Board meeting on the evening of the first Tuesday.
There will be a work session for the town commissioners and mayor at 5:30 p.m. that day, Sept. 3. Unfortunately the agenda for the work session was not complete by press time.
It is not that growth and development have slowed or stopped in town. But all the proposed plans in the pipeline need a thorough review by the town’s planning department and other town departments and outside agencies.
The plans that are currently under review include:
A possible Publix grocery store on Forestville Road between its intersection with Rogers Road and the entrance to Heritage High School, Foundation Drive. It will require rezoning and approval of the master plan which means a quasi-judicial public hearing. One of Andy Ammons’ corporations is listed as the current owner. The small shopping center would be called The Shoppes at Heritage.
A subdivision of 307 homes, a mix of single-family houses and townhouses, called Quail Crossing on Wait Avenue on 116 acres that now hold the town’s only trailer park, Wellington. The land runs down to Jones Dairy Road and abuts the Bowling Green subdivision. George Mackie Jr. owns the land.
A subdivision of 50 single-family houses on 29 acres that is owned by the heirs of Mary Bolus, who with her husband, George, operated one of the town’s two department stores for many years. The land is vacant. The possible name is Lakestone.
A master plan for the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus that includes an interior road lined with parking between South and North avenues on the east side of the campus. There is also a new road to the west of the campus that would link Stadium Drive and Durham Road near planned new student housing behind Patterson Hall and two new classroom buildings that would flank Patterson Hall.
The Courtyard at Heritage Grove on 30 acres along Rogers Road where the applicant, Epcon Communities, wants a rezoning to UR CD, which is conditional use urban residential where a variety of housing is permitted, including single-family houses, duplexes, small apartment buildings and townhouses.
The review is probably completed for South Lake at Holding Village because clearing and other work is already underway on South Franklin Street. This phase calls for a mix of 374 townhouses and single-family houses in the traditional neighborhood subdivision. A press release is expected in the near future with more details.
The Regency at Heritage on Forestville Road has been approved for 67 single-family lots but the planning department must also review other aspects.
The Retreat at Renaissance on South Brooks Street is expected to provide a boost to the downtown area when the 80 townhouses and five live/work townhouses are built along with the extension of South Brooks to East Holding Avenue. The plan and rezoning have been approved.
Only the building plan needs to be approved for the 84 Huntington Springs Senior Apartments on South Franklin Street. The existing zoning is appropriate.
That is also true of the first phase of the already approved Capital Creek Apartments on Rogers Road at the intersection of Heritage Branch Road. There will be 214 units.
There are other plans for new phases in existing subdivisions and some commercial uses. Those include the building plans for the Wakefield United Methodist Church on Star Road, the Wake Forest Fire Department’s Station #4 on Jenkins Road, a Valvoline store on South Main Street, a medical office on Leighton Ridge, a U-Haul and storage on Capital Boulevard and Meineke on Teletec Plaza off Capital Boulevard.
