Tuesday the Wake Forest Planning Board will hear two requests for rezoning and the subdivision plans that could add 471 (405 single-family and 68 townhouses) homes to the town.
Both requests involve family land and plans that have been contemplated or reviewed for a substantial amount of time.
First on the agenda is Radford Glen, which is proposed as 177 single-family lots on 47 acres owned by the Mackie Family LLC, George Mackie Jr., Glendora Keeton Heirs and Amy Lee Mackie on Wait Avenue (NC 98) between the Hilltop Mobile Home Park (formerly Wellington Trailer Park) and the entrance to Bowling Green and Bishops Grant subdivision. There is only the one entrance/exit proposed at first though there is a stub to a Bowling Green street that would require a bridge to cross a Smith Creek tributary. Before the town will issue building permits for lots 169 through 177 the developer must connect to the Bowling Green street.
This subdivision – or other versions of it – have been on the planning department’s radar for years and has been on an agenda at least once before being withdrawn.
The land is mostly vacant. The request is to 167 single-family lots in conditional urban residential zoning and 10 lots in conditional residential mixed-use zoning. There has been a traffic study by Ramey Kemp that has been reviewed the state Department of Transportation and the town’s Community Development Department.
The house on the property will be removed as will a cemetery, though the state and town require full documentation of the cemetery removal.
The other request is from members of the Holden family – Judith Holden Hill and husband, John Hill; Randall P. Holden and wife, Carol Holden; Richard Neil Holden and wife, Deborah Ann Holden; and Ginny Carol Holden Keith and husband, Charles David Keith.
The 74 acres for the subdivision are on the east side of Capital Boulevard between the Rolling Acres subdivision to the north and Wall Road and Richland Hills subdivision. The family corporation, Holden Mason I LLC, will retain 20 acres of road frontage for commercial development later.
There are two entrances/exits, one directly to Capital Boulevard through the future commercial area and a connection to Ripley Woods Street in the Richland Hills subdivision. All the land is in Franklin County and annexation would be necessary. They plan to tie into a 12-inch Franklin County waterline in Capital Boulevard and also tie into the Wake Forest sewer system in Richland Hills.
The rezoning requested for Glen Oaks is conditional residential mixed use for the townhouse area on the north side of the project (about 11 units per acre) and conditional general residential 10 (about four units per acre) for the single-family lots. There was a traffic impact analysis by Ramey Kemp that was reviewed by the Wake Forest Community Development Department and the state Department of Transportation.
Both projects would be required to make improvements such as turn lanes on the major roads they will use.
The planning department recommends approval with a number of conditions for each.
The Wake Forest Planning Board will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night for joint public hearings with the Wake Forest Board of Commissioners. The planning board will be short one member since Thomas Smith resigned this month. The hearings will be legislative, meaning anyone can voice an opinion about the rezonings.
4 Responses
Frog Hollow Way absolutely should NOT be connected to this development. It is too narrow to be a through street and would
most definitely be a safety issue.
The roads, and schools, are maxed out now!
Need to add more beer stands at Friday on white .
The town is sick have no roads for more volume of traffic.