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At their meeting Tuesday, Aug. 21, the
Wake Forest commissioners will make the
final decision about Purnell Place
Shopping Center in the northeast corner
of the Capital Boulevard and Harris Road
intersection.
A sizable contingent of
Wallridge subdivision residents were at
the public hearing on Aug. 7, most of
them objecting to the future extension
of a connector street to meet Wall Ridge
Drive.
The planning board voted to
delete one of the suggested conditions
that specified a stub from the shopping
center to that street.
The other planning items are
unlikely to draw any opposition. They
are the master plan for The Well coffee
house and church on South main Street,
an increase in the number of lots for
Heritage Commons commercial subdivision,
and a rezoning to residential use for 34
acres between N.C. 98 (Wait Avenue) and
Oak Grove Church Road that is planned as
an extension to Bishop’s Grant
subdivision. On Aug. 7, neighbors
praised the developer for meeting their
requests although there is still concern
about wells going dry.
There will be happier topics
to begin the meeting at 7 p.m.
Former town commissioner
Hope Newsom, the treasurer for the
Northern Wake Senior Citizens
Association, will turn over some unused
funds to the town for capital
improvements at the Northern Wake Senior
Center.
The town board will approve
a resolution honoring North Carolina
Highway Patrolman Robert R. “Bob” East
and request the state Department of
Transportation named the Neuse River
bridge on Capital Boulevard be named in
his honor.
East was killed Dec. 21,
1972, while pursuing a speeding driver.
A 26-year veteran of the Highway Patrol,
East made his home in Wake Forest. His
widow, Ruby Nall, lives in Raleigh; his
daughter, Shirley Matheny, lives in Wake
Forest; and a son, Thomas East, lives in
Haymarket, Va.
The Wake County
commissioners have already approved the
bridge naming and the Raleigh City
Council is expected to take the same
action on Sept. 5.
The Wake Forest board will
also proclaim Sunday, Sept. 9, as Tommy
Byrne Day, and a celebration is planned
at the Wake Forest College Birthplace,
the Calvin Jones House on North Main
Street, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. that day.
Mike Waters with the North
Carolina Recreation and Parks
Association will present an award to the
town’s advisory Recreation Board.
Two houses the town owns
will be put up for bid after the town
board declares them surplus property.
One is the former Green & Wooten
insurance office at 309 S. Brooks St.
and the second is a small white house
next to the gray planning department
building and behind the planning
department annex that stands at 211 S.
Brooks. The condition is that the houses
may not be demolished or scrapped but
must be moved to a lot for reuse.
The commissioners are
expected to approve a contract with
Narron Contracting for $3,080,290.05 to
build the roundabouts on South Franklin
Street at East Holding and East Elm
avenues, install landscaped medians from
East Holding to Wait Avenue, build
sidewalk with landscaping and install
gateway entrances at the N.C. 98 bypass
and Wait Avenue (N.C. 98).
The total cost of the
Franklin Street project is now estimated
at $5.2 million, a cost that includes
engineering, land purchases and
lighting. A year ago the cost was
estimated at $4.2 million.
The meeting will be shown
live on Channel 10. |
