WRI-Wake Union, the group which was turned down for its bid to build a shopping center on the former Parker-Hannifin plant site on Wake Union Church Road, has submitted another plan to the Wake Forest Planning Department.
“The site plan is essentially the same as what was submitted previously,” Senior Planner Charlie Yokley said this week. “However, they are now proposing a ‘super-street’ along Capital Boulevard to better deal with traffic issues.”
A super-street is one where only right turns are allowed in and out of a road – in this case the extension of Wake Union Church Road – and any driver wishing to make a left turn must go to a nearby intersection where U-turns are allowed and indicated.
Yokley also said the name of the proposed project remains the same, Wake Union Place.
WRI-Wake Union also has an appeal pending before the North Carolina Court of Appeals asking that court to reverse Superior Court Judge Carl Fox’s ruling in 2009 that the town commissioners could deny WRI’s request for a special use permit to build the shopping center. The denial was based on the increased traffic on Capital Boulevard.
This week town attorney Eric Vernon said he had not received any notice that the appeal had been withdrawn and therefore assumed WRI-Wake Union is pursuing both paths, the appeal and the new plan.