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Joyner Park bids
on agenda
Bids for the first phase of work on
Joyner Park were opened Dec. 5, and Tuesday night the Wake Forest Town Board
will be asked to agree to award the contract to Harrod & Associates.
The low bid was $3,495,780, and the
work will include construction of the amphitheatre, performance garden and
regular garden as well as dam reconstruction, and building the trails, parking
lot and driveway. Other parts of the first phase such as utility relocation,
building 2,000 feet of ribbon and stone walls, and restoring the existing farm
buildings and the pecan grove will bring the total to $4,179,557.
The board will also be asked to give
Parks and Recreation Director Susan Simpson authority to apply for a grant from
the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trust Fund for $365,267, half of the amount
needed to build 5,750 feet of the Dunn Creek greenway.
The Greenway Advisory Board would like
to build soft-surface, multi-user trails to quickly expand the town’s
greenway/trail inventory. Last week Greg Hoit, a greenway board member, asked
the commissioners to ask Raleigh for its approval so volunteers can build such
a trail around the Smith Creek reservoir.
The town may also shed one of its open
space units, albeit an unused and undeveloped one. Wake Forest developer Jim
Adams has offered $150,000 and put down a 5 percent deposit to purchase the
10-acre J.L. Warren park site which is just south of the proposed building for
the Corporate Chaplains of America. Siena Crossing, one of Adams’ companies,
owns the land where the building would stand.
The town commissioners, who discussed
the possible sale with their attorney, Eric Vernon, last year, would have to
declare the land surplus property, authorize a sale with an upset bid procedure
and then agree to the sale.
Also, the two owners of the proposed
LaserSplash car wash on Rogers Road will return to ask for a special use
permit. The planning board recommended approval nine to zero in November, but
the commissioners decided to delay the matter because of the drought.
The other planning items are not as
controversial. The planning board unanimously recommended rezoning 1.3 acres on
Harris Road for part of the planned Purnell Place shopping center. The Mason
Group, which owns the small tract, has petitioned for the town to annex it. A
site plan review for the Corporate Chaplains of America, recommended by the
planning board on a six to two vote, is included in the consent agenda, where
no discussion is allowed.
In other business, the commissioners
will
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Consider
closing East Owen Avenue from Brooks Street to the Wake Forest Police
Department building. The new town hall will stand there.
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Consider
an interlocal agreement whereby Wake County will take over permitting, plan
review and building inspection for all new county schools.
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Consider
a four-way stop at Song Sparrow Drive and Lagerfield Way requested by Thornrose
subdivision residents.
The town board meeting begins at 7
p.m. in town hall. If you want to address the board about a matter not on the
agenda, speak to Town Clerk Joyce Wilson MMC before the meeting and Mayor
Vivian Jones will recognize you during the public comment section.
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