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The Wake Forest commissioners voted
unanimously Tuesday night to approve the
special use permit request by Regency
Center to build a shopping center,
Purnell Place, in the northeast corner
where Harris Road and Capital Boulevard
meet.
The road extension that had
concerned residents in the Wallridge
subdivision to the east, Wall Ridge
Drive, was deleted from the conditions
for the approval. That extension would
have been built when the land behind the
shopping center is developed.
The Wallridge folks “may
have dodged the bullet,” Commissioner
Frank Drake said, “but connectivity is a
goal this board has consistently
pursued. Sooner or later a connection
will be made.”
Town board and planning
board members have frequently said the
town needs to erect a sign at each
stubbed-out road from a subdivision or
development saying “To Be Continued.”
Drake added a line, “Regardless Of What
Your Realtor Says.”
“It does kind of bother me
that we’re going to have a shopping
center every ten feet along Capital
Boulevard,” Mayor Vivian Jones said. “Do
we need another grocery store along
Capital Boulevard? We can’t get anybody
to build a grocery store downtown to
service a lot of people in town.”
Drake said he was tired of
seeing the same sort of shopping center
plan that he saw in New Jersey in 1966,
“and it was considered obsolete then.”
In other business, the
board:
-- approved plans for The
Well on South Main Street and Heritage
Commons commercial subdivision on Rogers
Road.
-- declared two houses on
Brooks Street that the town owns to be
surplus and authorized Town Manager Mark
Williams to sell them to parties which
will move and then use them.
-- approved the contract
with Narron Construction for $3.08
million to build two phases of the
Franklin Street upgrade as specified in
the Renaissance Plan. The total cost of
the project, with landscaping, lighting,
land purchase and engineering is
estimated at $5.2 million. |
