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Tuesday night the Wake Forest
commissioners may approve two changes in
the zoning ordinance which will provide
for Traditional Neighborhood
Developments and allow the Holding
family to go forward with their plans
for a 1,290-home TND, Holding Village.
Entrust Holdings, headed by
Bill Andrews and Libby Holding Perry,
want to build the homes, shops and
streets on 300-plus acres just south of
the N.C. 98 bypass – look for the three
silos – and north of Heritage.
If the two changes are
approved, Entrust Holdings will have to
develop a master plan and a regulating
code spelling out how the buildings and
streets will look and relate to each
other. The Wake Forest Planning Board
was split but recommended the changes
five to three on Jan. 2.
A month earlier than usual –
adjusted because Finance Director Aileen
Staples will soon be on maternity leave
– the board will hold a public hearing
to find out what town residents want to
see in next year’s budget. Do you want
more sidewalks, more street lights or
another park? Now is the time to speak
out.
Staples will achieve a
long-time goal Tuesday night when the
board approves the piggy-back purchase
of new financial software. The town will
have the same terms and cost as the Town
of Apex for New World Software.
A second public hearing will
be about the financing for the future
electric substation near the N.C. 98
bypass. Also on the agenda is a
resolution to allow for the installment
purchase of equipment for the
substation. The terms and more
information about that will be available
at the meeting.
The commissioners will take
an expensive step when they approve a
joint use agreement with the Wake County
Public School System for the athletic
and recreational facilities at Heritage
High School.
The town has invested and
will invest more in the school-town
park, $4.4 million including a county
grant.
Wake Forest paid $475,000 to
help purchase the 110 acres on
Forestville Road and gave Ammons
Development Group a credit of $387,740
as prepaid town recreation fees for the
group to transfer another 20 acres to
the school system.
The town will spend up to
$3.3 million for the design and
construction of two lighted ball fields,
two unlighted multipurpose fields,
lighting for the school’s baseball and
softball fields and tennis courts, an
additional parking lot and access road,
additional parking in the school’s
parking lot, a restroom/storage building
and all the infrastructure needed for
the improvements.
The $3.3 million includes
$2.3 million authorized in the parks and
recreation bonds voters approved in May
of 2005, about $835,000 the town set
aside last fiscal year for the grading,
what the town has spent thus far for the
design and a $242,000 Wake County grant.
In other business, the board
will consider:
-- appointments and
re-appointments to the town’s advisory
board
-- a petition for annexation
by Mountaineer Group I for an 8.3 tract
on Galaxy Drive which the town has
already approved as the Crescent Pointe
Development, a six-lot commercial
subdivision.
-- approval of the Wake
Forest Pedestrian Plan.
-- appointment of the mayor
pro tem.
-- a request by Bob and
Elizabeth Johnson to close the South
White Street parking lot four days,
April 19-22, for the eighth Herbfest.
-- amendments to the zoning
ordinance changing the amounts of
off-street parking.
-- an exchange of property
with Richard and Barbara Kunkle, who
discovered as they were selling their
house that their swimming pool had been
built on town land.
-- changes in the town code
to reflect that the town no longer
operates the water and sewer system. |
