Although not as large as some other subdivisions will be at total buildout, the combined Tryon-Averette subdivision on the east side of Wake Forest, stretching out to N.C. 96, will be substantial addition to Wake Forest.
The Averette subdivision (its current name which may change) is asking permission to build 677 single-family homes and 288 townhouses on 272 acres. The Averette request was scheduled to be heard at the September meeting of the Wake Forest Planning Board, but that meeting was cancelled last week. It may be rescheduled for the October planning board meeting. The engineers are Priest, Craven & Associates, and the master plan map says the client is Tryon Investment Partners II, LLC without an address.
If the Wake Forest Planning Department follows its usual procedure, the public hearing will consist of a request for a rezoning with an associated master plan, which allows it to be a regular public hearing with speakers who do not have to be sworn as they would during a quasi-judicial hearing.
Tryon was approved in 2014 for 268 single-family homes and 136 townhouses on 131 acres south of Oak Grove Church Road with engineering by Priest, Craven & Associates. It was requested by Tryon WF LLC, 201 Forest Drive, Wendell.
Since then the Tryon owners have acquired three tracts called the Flynn property immediately to the east where 69 single-family homes will soon be built. Again, the engineers are Priest, Craven & Associates and the map says the name is Tryon-Flynn, sponsored by Trying Investment Partners LLC, Wake Forest.
Together the three projects would result in construction of 1,014 single-family homes and 424 townhouses or 1,438 dwelling units. Our current household count (dwelling units of all types) is 16,788, an 8.6 percent possible increase.
Averette Road, a two-lane winding road between N.C. 98 and Oak Grove Church Road, will be in the middle of the Averette addition to Tryon. Oak Grove Church Road is also two lanes and only runs between N.C. 96 (Zebulon Road) and Traditions Grande Boulevard. N.C. 98 is also two lanes at its intersection with Averette Road, but there is a traffic signal at that intersection. All of these roads, or a part of them, is owned and maintained by the state Department of Transportation, which can require improvements at new intersections.
In 2015, when Tryon was approved for the second time by the Wake Forest Town Board – 12 suits were filed against the town after the first approval, several changes were made to the project, including a settlement with landowners which allowed the Raleigh sewer system to serve Tryon – the Wake Forest Gazette reported both Tryon and Kings Glen, the small subdivision between Tryon and Bishops Grant, were being underwritten or developed by Greystone Development Group. The group also developed Club Villas at Wakefield Plantation and Olde Town in Raleigh.
(You can read about the controversies around Tryon and the 12 lawsuits by typing “Tryon” in the search box on the front page of The Wake Forest Gazette.)
4 Responses
Infrastructure FIRST!!
Please fix all the issues with Wait Avenue first!
Exactly. At the rate the Planning Board approves new developments without any consideration for quality of life, there won’t be any “forest” left in Wake Forest.
Is there going to a traffic study that includes the whole development and everything else that might be built that would add traffic to the same roads? That would include all planned residential and commercial building planned. With that many homes, someone must be planning a couple of grocery stores and drug stores and nail salons and mattress stores and necessary fast food.
Why?!? Why why why why why?
When is enough enough? Focus on infrastructure first and let that catch up. It’s beyond ridiculous at this point. Quality of life up and left long ago.