After this week’s public hearing about the Legacy Heritage master plan for 307 apartments on 24.35 acres in a wooded area bounded by the N.C. 98 Bypass, Heritage Lake Road and Friendship Chapel Road, the rest of the winter and early spring will also be busy with public hearings. All but two hearings for small projects will be legislative hearings where anyone may speak.
There are three possibilities for hearings during January and February: the Kinsley subdivision, an amendment for the Kitchin Farms subdivision and the Cottages at Cardinal Hills.
The developer for Kinsley proposes 764 dwelling units on 203 acres along North Main Street in Wake and Franklin counties. It is case RZ-19-02 and was submitted for review in the planning department on March 4 of this year.
Included are five parcels on the west side of North Main Street formerly owned by Calvin Ray S. and his wife and now owned by Calvin Ray Jr. and Mary Ann Hughes. Together the parcels are about 65 acres.
Also, on the east side of North Main Street in Wake County the 58.74 acres were owned by Owen Wadford before his death and are now owned by Site Investments LLC from Knightdale. The rest of the affected acreage, 70 or so acres, is in Franklin County and was also owned by Wadford before his death.
For Kinsley, Priest Craven & Associates submitted a plan for a planned unit development (PUD) with 30 phases in the construction schedule for a mix of townhouses and single-family lots. All the townhouses will be rear-loaded, driveway and garage in the back.
There is no information about the amendment requested for Kitchin Farms.
The Cottages at Cardinal Hills is proposed as 30 residential units in three sections off Cardinal Hills Drive. The houses will have communal parking areas and will be reached by paths. The plan was submitted by Red Line Engineering.
During February and March there may be a hearing about an amendment for the Everly subdivision in Franklin County reached through the Olde Mill Stream subdivision from the south or from the north by North Main Street/Youngsville Boulevard and Stephen Taylor Road.
Jennifer Currin, the manager for development services, estimates it will be between February and April when the planning board will hold a hearing about the Averette Road-Tryon subdivision. The Tryon development team submitted a request for a new public hearing on the Averette subdivision on Nov. 13, just two days before the 45-day window in which to make that request ended. Staff has not received a revised plan for the subdivision. The developers chose to ask for a new hearing after the planning board voted eight to one against recommending the town board approve the project.
Currin also estimates it will be in the March to May time frame for a hearing about Radford Glen which is a proposed single-family lot subdivision on the south side of Wait Avenue east of Jones Dairy Road, the third or fourth time a Radford Glen plan has been on a planning board agenda, sometimes under a different name. This time, Currin said, “BNK submitted the plan and the property owners are George Mackie, Mackie Family, LLC and Glendora Keeton Heirs.”
The last plan was in 2018 when Russell Gay, a local realtor and developer, was negotiating with Mackie, a former Wake Forest mayor, to purchase 47 acres on Wait Avenue where he would build 177 single-family lots.
On June 27, 2018, Gay submitted a request to withdraw the subdivision’s rezoning and masterplan application “since no resolution between the developer and property owner on the contractual agreement had been reached.” The hearing had been continued twice.
In December of 2017 the technical review board saw a plan for 176 single-family lots on about 100 acres owned by Mackie and family trusts. By January 2018 the monthly report by the planning department said the plan was for 72 single-family lots.
Mackie has been trying to develop a residential subdivision on the land he and other family members own lying south of Wait Avenue (N.C. 98) since 2014. In August of that year the J.R. McAdams engineering firm was the applicant, the name was Quail Crossing and the plan called for 307 housing units – a mix of single-family and townhouses on 116 acres which included the only trailer park in town, Wellington Trailer Park. The land extended to Jones Dairy Road where there would be another entrance. (If the subdivision name sounds familiar it is because the defunct plan for a shopping center nearby at the N.C. 98 bypass and Jones Dairy Road was named Quail Crossings.)
After this announcement there was no official action. The plan disappeared until March and May 2015 when it was twice on the planning board agenda but named Westford Place with 100 acres. The trailer park was by then renamed Deerfield Crossing Mobile Home Park and would be untouched. Both times the plan was removed from the agenda before the meeting.
Westford Place resurfaced in 2016 with 248 single-family lots on 100 acres. Bob Zumwalt with the John R. McAdams Company was the engineer but the purchaser’s name was not known. The item was on the Wake Forest Planning Board’s agenda for March and delayed until April. In an email on April 7, Zumwalt wrote to a town planner, “Unfortunately we have run into some contract issues with the purchaser of the land that have cause further delays of the project. Sine we are unclear as to how long it will take to resolve these issues, we would like to officially request that both the rezoning/master plan and the annexation be withdrawn at this time.”
The Wake Forest Planning Department has begun providing a monthly update of the future public hearings before the planning and town boards with approximate dates for those hearings as well as other information. Readers can find the updates shortly before the monthly planning board meetings by going to the town’s website, clicking first on “Government” and then on “Streaming Media Archives.” There you will find the agendas for the town board work session and the joint hearings before the town and planning boards. The updates are at the end of the planning board agenda.
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