Residents protesting two housing projects

Wake Forest residents are protesting two projects that were to be heard during the regular meeting of the Wake Forest Town Board on Tuesday, March 21.
The new protest is from residents of the Bridgeport subdivision on Forestville Road and the their neighbors about the plan for the Forestville Road Townhomes, which would place a majority of the houses on the present site of a pond, which could overflow at any time because its dam is so substandard, according to an engineer with the state environmental agency. The neighbors want the pond properly and legally drained and say the current plan for 61 houses is too dense.
They will take a petition to the board meeting next Tuesday.
The E. Carroll Joyner property on Capitol Boulevard – also called the former Wake Forest Country Club then the Wake Forest Golf Club and sometimes the Joel Young property – has been the subject of a lot of scrutiny, lawsuits and controversy for more than two decades, often reaching the agenda for the Wake Forest Board of Commissioners meetings.
It is back – but last week after the Concerned Citizens for the Preservation of Wake Forest Open Space filed their intentions to have 15 speakers and six presentations during the quasi-judicial hearing, that hearing was rescheduled.
It will be held beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 23, in the second-floor meeting room in the Wake Forest Town Hall.
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