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Tuesday night Millridge Associates will
ask the Wake Forest Planning Board to
rezone a South Main house and its acre
lot from neighborhood business to
residential use.
The house at 851 S. Main St.
is currently owned by Gayle W. Adams,
whose husband, Jim, owns Millridge
Associates. It was built by Dwight and
Lydia Lowie, who lived there until their
deaths.
According to the staff
report prepared by planner Ann Ayers,
the rezoning is necessary because
Millridge plans to renovate the house,
which has an accessory apartment and was
damaged by a fire, into a duplex.
“Expansion of nonconforming uses to this
extent is not allowed,” Ayers wrote. She
recommends approval of the request.
The house, just south of the
original town limits, is in a
neighborhood with mixed uses. David and
Vicki Berry own the brick house to the
north and use it for their real estate
business. That house and lot are zoned
neighborhood business. To the south
there is a street leading to Jim and
Gayle Adams’ property that has been
gated at the railroad’s request and
beyond the street are the parsonage and
buildings for the Wake Forest United
Methodist Church. Across the street are
two houses zoned for residential use and
two vacant lots zoned for neighborhood
business, all owned by Magdalene Alford.
The information is from the Wake County
property and tax records on the county
web site.
The second agenda item is to
amend the Historic Preservation
Commission regulations as recommended by
the town board. The amendments would
change the membership requirements which
now say four members must live in the
North Main historic district to include
someone who lives in a locally
designated Historic Landmark; to change
the terms of board members to three
years from four; and to add a
requirement for an annual report by Oct.
1. The changes are to conform to the new
standard for advisory boards the
commissioners recently adopted.
The planning and town boards
will hold joint public hearings for
these two matters.
The other agenda items are
reviews of two subdivision master plans.
John Watkins of Capital
Concrete Company is asking for approval
of a revision of his plan for 5 acres in
South Forest Business Park off
Burlington Mills Road. He had planned 12
lots and now wants 14 lots, to be done
by subdividing one lot into three.
Planner Chad Sary recommends approval.
The other request is by
Ammons Building Corporation headed by
Jeff Ammons for a 15.6-acre, 65-home,
single-family residential subdivision
nestled between holes 14 through 17 and
the pond of the Heritage golf course. It
would be accessed by an extension of
Heritage Glenn Drive. The land is
already zoned R-5 (a minimum lot size of
5,000 square feet). Sary recommends
approval with the condition there be a
50-foot undisturbed watercourse buffer
in the rear of the lots adjacent to the
pond and the area, as well as the Neuse
River Riparian Buffer be recorded as
permanent conservation easements. The
subdivision will be called Heritage
Overlook.
The public hearings begin at
7:30 p.m. in town hall on Tuesday, April
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