Tuesday night the Wake Forest Town Board voted to annex the first section of Holding Village into town.
Those first 15.4 acres are northeast of the current end of South Franklin Street next to Heritage. This section of South Franklin runs from the signal light on Rogers Road at the Heritage Elementary and Middle schools and ends at a former pasture. The developers, a partnership of the William and Betty Holding heirs and Roger Perry of East West Partners in Chapel Hill, are installing streets and infrastructure for a small portion of the future traditional neighborhood development.
When completed, Holding Village will have 1,300 homes of various types along with a small retail center and a number of parks and amenities. The developers will connect the two portions of South Franklin Street from the N.C. 98 bypass to the stubbed end leading to Rogers Road.
The commissioners also agreed to a 12-month extension of a special use permit for a child care facility, The Learning Experience, on Heritage Links Drive off Heritage Lake Road.
They did add a new condition that the developer, former mayor Dick Monteith, agreed to: that the construction adhere to the new landscape ordinance that was approved since the special use permit was granted.
The board also:
-- approved new fees for use of the new J. Carroll Joyner Park which will open Aug. 1 and for fingerprint requests at the police department.
-- approved a contract with WSP Sells for a traffic-calming policy. There will be two public hearings about the policy.
-- and agreed to a no-parking policy on both sides of Spring Valley Road, which is unpaved with ditches on both sides. One renter on the road had been holding frequent and large parties and the guests parked on the road, causing a problem for other residents.