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Wake Forest’s town board will tackle the
tough issue of the site for town hall
and a new police station/public safety
building again Tuesday night.
They have moved the closed
session discussion near the top of the
agenda, right after the public hearing
and comment. There is no indication they
are any closer to a decision than last
month, when the architect displayed
three possible layouts along Brooks
Street, and it was not discussed during
Friday’s retreat.
One item that may not be
discussed is a request for 60 building
permits a year for the proposed Village
at Wake Forest subdivision on the Calvin
Ray property on North Main Street. “I
think that project’s dead,” Planning
Director Chip Russell said during the
board’s work session last week. Someone
asked if the pond was a problem, and
Russell said, “It had nothing to do with
the pond. I think it had to do with the
owner.”
There may be a petition
against another planning item, the
rezoning request by Willfair Properties
for 18.9 acres along Rogers Road that
abuts the county-zoned subdivision
Clearspring. Most of the Clearspring
neighbors were at the public hearing
last week, opposing the rezoning because
of the requested density, conditional
use R-8, and connecting their narrow
portion of Clearspring Drive to Rogers
Road, giving access through their
subdivision to Chalks Road. The planning
board recommended approval by a 6 to 1
vote.
The only public hearing will
be about the contiguous annexation of
the Willfair property.
The board will also be asked
to accept a petition for non-contiguous
annexation by Waters Edge Environmental
for property on Shearon Farms Avenue off
Capital Boulevard. Russell said the
company wants to build a retail store to
sell Oasis Pools.
The commissioners will also:
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Appoint candidates to one seat on
the Historic Preservation Commission
and two seats on the Human Relations
Council.
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Review the master plan for the
Northern Regional Center that was
unanimously recommended by the
planning board.
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Consider the bids to build the Olde
Mill Stream Greenway.
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Consider a contract with the Trust
for Public Land to purchase the
70-acre Clinebelle land on the north
side of the Neuse River.
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