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The Town of Wake Forest no longer owns
the water and sewer systems serving its
residents, but the town commissioners
still want to husband the water and
lessen the flow of sewer to stay within
the terms of the contract with the City
of Raleigh and avoid purchasing more
water or sewer capacity.
To that end, the town board
may adopt a water and sewer conservation
policy Tuesday night. The policy would
discourage the use of potable water for
irrigation in all new and current
developments. Instead, new developments
would be encouraged to use wells,
rainwater or, when available, reuse
systems. Existing developments and
homeowners would be encouraged to use
drip irrigation, timed and in-ground
pressurized irrigation systems, rain
barrels or in-ground cisterns.
The policy would also
encourage the use of drought-tolerant
grasses, natural rainwater retention
systems, use of traditional native
plants in landscaping and water-saving
devices in all homes.
There will also be an update
at Tuesday night’s board meeting about
water use to date in a fairly dry summer
season.
GreenPower is a statewide
voluntary program in which town
residents may contribute as little as $4
a month to the program to pay for
existing renewable energy suppliers and
encourage the development of more such
suppliers. Those renewable energy
sources are solar, wind, and methane
collected from animal wastes and
landfills. More information is available
at
http://www.ncgreenpower.org.
Even the town’s planning
director, Chip Russell, signed a
petition asking the commissioners to
place a two-hour limit on parking on
West Cedar Avenue. The residents on the
dead-end street want to limit parking by
high school students.
The other items in a lengthy
agenda follow. The Tuesday meeting
begins at 7 a.m. in town hall and is
televised on Channel 10.
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A public hearing for contiguous
annexation of 29 acres in the 13700
block of Capital Boulevard submitted
by The Wright People (Ricky Wright,
Bob Neeb and Charles Nassif). It has
been rezoned as a 12-lot commercial
subdivision, the Capital Boulevard
Business Center.
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A second annexation hearing will be
continued so that annexation and
rezoning of 34 acres at 3600 Copper
Beach Lane may be considered at the
same time. The request is from ECI
Custom Homes.
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The commissioners will appoint
members to Downtown Revitalization
Corporation’s board of directors.
Cristiana Walkley, Jonnie Anderson,
Jeff Adolphsen, Ryan Hutchinson and
Mike Berry are the candidates.
Walkley has had to step down as
chairman for person reasons and
Adolphsen has taken the post.
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There is one vacancy on the
nine-member board for the Historic
Preservation Commission, and two
people, Jon E. Eisen of 413 N. Main
St. and Debra Ludas of 231 S. Main
St., have applied. The town board
will vote by ballot.
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The commissioners are expected to
establish a Youth Advisory Board
similar to their other advisory
boards but with one-year terms.
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The commissioners will make the
final decisions about the cases
heard by the planning board earlier
this month. Those are:
-- A request by
MacLeod Construction for a special use
permit to build a concrete plant in
South
Forest Business
Park.
-- A request by
1st American Land to rezone
39 acres in the 1000 block of North Main
Street, the
west side, for a
104-lot subdivision called The Meadow.
There is a valid protest petition, which
means four of
the five commissioners must vote to
approve for it to pass.
-- A request by
the Reservoir Development Group to
rezone 87 acres in scattered parcels in
anticipation of
a development request later this summer.
-- Zoning
ordinance amendments to change the
method of notification and to permit the
town to
regulate
wireless transmission facilities.
You can also
find the agenda on the town’s web site,
http://www.wakeforestnc.gov. |
