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Tuesday night, Oct. 3, the Wake Forest
Planning Board unanimously approved a
conditional use rezoning for an
industrial subdivision, the master plan
for Heritage Reserve subdivision and
additional parking at Power Secure.
The 15-lot industrial
subdivision, to be called Neuse
Industrial Park, will be on land owned
by Martha E. Fuller, 97, who died the
following day. Fuller owned 57 acres and
the Powell-Fuller House, listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, on
Capital Boulevard.
The subdivision will be
developed by FMD Corporation, which has
the 23 acres under contract, Harry
Mitchell with the engineering firm of
Bass, Nixon & Kennedy said. It has
access from Unicon Drive and One World
Way off Burlington Mills Road.
“They keep putting more and
more traffic on Burlington Mills Road,”
planning board member Steve Stoller
said. “I can’t see how they can say it
[the industrial park] won’t affect
traffic.”
Also, Stoller said, the
planning board has been concerned about
having two entrances to any residential
subdivision, but this industrial
subdivision has only one. He asked about
a direct access to Capital Boulevard.
“DOT won’t allow that,”
planning board member Mike Martin said.
Planning Director Chip
Russell said the plans include the
right-of-way for a three-lane service
road that will be built when Capital
Boulevard is converted to a multi-lane,
limited access freeway.
One of the planning staff’s
recommendations was that FMD Corporation
provide 50 feet of storage for the
eastbound left turn lane on Burlington
Mills Road to be in addition to the 100
feet of storage planned by the state
Department of Transportation. Russell
said the DOT is actually replacing a
bridge over Sanford Creek but is also
widening the road from the bridge to One
World Way to three lanes.
Christa Greene with Wilbur
Smith Associates, the consulting firm
the town hired but FMD paid for, said
their traffic count found 90 vehicles
making a right turn into One World Way
from Burlington Mills in the morning and
240 vehicles making a left turn.
The vote to recommend the
rezoning and the master plan was 8 to 0
because Tom Cornett and Peter Thibodeau
were absent.
There was almost no
discussion about the Heritage Reserve
subdivision on Colonial Club Drive.
There will be 21 lots for single-family
homes on the 8.8 acres. The land was
annexed and rezoned with the rest of
Heritage in January of 2000, and this is
the last to be planned and developed.
The master plan for Power
Secure, owned by H&C Holdings, was
approved in July of 2005, and the
company built the plant, which assembles
generators and other power equipment, on
Heritage Trade Drive.
Since then, planner Ann
Ayers said, the company has closed its
headquarters in Canada and moved
employees here, added other employees
and found they need service vehicles.
The company now has 68 employees and
needs more parking.
The board recommended adding
the proposed 25 parking spaces in a
separate parking lot on land the company
owns. |
