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Small rezoning, office
plans on agenda
The Wake Forest Planning Board members
and town commissioners will hold a joint public hearing Thursday night
(tonight) about rezoning a little over an acre to match the highway business
zoning for the adjoining tract, which was rezoned last August and is planned as
Purnell Place Shopping Center at the intersection of Capital Boulevard and
Harris Road.
The planning board will also review
the site plans for two office complexes on either side of the Siena Drive
extension south of the N.C. 98 bypass.
Three new planning board members will
take their seats: Zachary Donahue, Edwin Gary and Keith Robbins. They were
appointed in December from 22 applicants. The town board also reappointed Bob
Hill, the current chairman, Kim Parker and Steve Stoller. The other members are
Sarah Bridges, Ward Marotti and Alphonza Merritt.
Planner Ann Ayers said in her analysis
that Regency Centers of Raleigh, the group developing Purnell Place, are
purchasing the 1.3 acres from The Mason Group to provide access to the shopping
center from Harris Road. The land lies along Harris Road and an abandoned brick
convenience store stands on the site. She recommends approval.
The two office complexes are currently
named Siena Office Park and Corporate Chaplains.
Siena Crossing LLC, a Jim Adams
company formed in 2004, owns the eight acres where Southpointe Builders of
Raleigh wants to build seven one- and two-story office buildings for general
office use and medical offices in Siena Office Park. The land was zoned in 1999
for conditional use office and institutional uses. The only entrance will be on
the extension of Siena Drive now being constructed on the south side of the
bypass. Siena Office Park will be on the east side of Siena Drive.
On the west side of Siena Drive, the
Corporate Chaplains of America, who now rent space at 2018 South Main Street,
want to build one office building now, a second one later. The 7.77 acres are
also owned by Siena Crossing LLC and the land was also zoned for conditional
use office and institutional uses in 1999.
Because the land is in the Richland
Creek Watershed Protection Overlay District, Ayers recommends approval of the
first building but said the second building should not be constructed until the
Corporate Chaplains purchase enough land “to result in a maximum of 24 percent
impervious surface area.”
The public hearing and the planning
board meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. in town hall. Anyone who wishes to may speak
at the public hearing.
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