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UID:meeting-589@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250804
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250805
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nSix annexations and a rezoning came before Fuquay-Varina's town board on 4 August 2025\, and one of them drew four neighbors in opposition: about 10 acres at 3799 Well Fleet Drive\, near Kennebec Road. The mayor used the hearing to explain that the town cannot annex anyone against their will\, that the only question before the board was whether water and sewer can reach the property\, and that Willow Springs is a postal designation rather than an incorporated town.\n\nThe board adopted its 2025-2029 strategic plan and signed a lease with Wake County for land at 7069 Kennebec Road\, next to Willow Springs Elementary\, for a future town park. Every vote was 5-0.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08042025-521\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/ZrknsG_0Ehs\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/589
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08042025-521
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-617@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Planning Board Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nFuquay-Varina's planning board recommended a 47-home development at 5202 Spence Farm Road on 18 August 2025\, sending it to the commissioners\, who approved it two weeks later. The applicant pitched it on density: about 2.5 to 2.6 units per acre against the six the zoning would allow.\n\nA neighbor said she does not oppose the project but wants the town to work with the state on lower speed limits and stop signs on Spence Farm Road as building continues. Board members agreed it would be worth staff reviewing the transportation plan for that area. The board also recommended the thirtieth amendment to the land development ordinance and adjourned in 27 minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-523\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/A5K8K9QIP-A\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/617
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-523
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251007
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nFuquay-Varina's town board took on more than 4 million dollars in state and regional road\, sidewalk and greenway money on 6 October 2025\, including 2\,847\,000 dollars from a metropolitan planning grant for pedestrian improvements between Lincoln Heights and Bridge Street. It also settled a property purchase for 450\,000 dollars to site a future elevated water tank.\n\nTwo residents used public comment to return to a half-demolished house on Longfellow Street\, and the mayor called the builder's handling of it unacceptable and embarrassing. Every vote was 5-0. GoRaleigh told the board its express bus to Raleigh ends on 2 January 2026 and is replaced by an on-demand service.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062025-528\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/3Q-K7wCo4h8\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/585
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062025-528
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-616@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251021
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Planning Board Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThree rezonings\, all recommended 6-0\, and each driven by something specific the current zoning will not allow. One property owner has a tenant who wants to open a salon. Another pair are nearing retirement and preparing to sell to commercial interests. The third wants to divide an upstairs living area into two rental apartments.\n\nThe third case is the one worth noting: staff acknowledged the rezoning does not match the land use plan\, so the petitioner asked to change the plan instead. The board also marked a member's departure after ten years.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-529\nWatch: https://youtu.be/Mr067XXpnQc?list=PLrJHixxvd6CijcgAMYU4BRNPmtggTmUIU\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/616
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-529
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board accepted $858\,207.50 from two developments in place of building the road and greenway improvements those projects would otherwise owe: $305\,731.43 from the Harvest District subdivision and $552\,476.07 from a project on NC 42.\n\nIt also started five voluntary annexations toward their hearings and took first readings of three zoning map amendments. All five annexations and all three rezonings were adopted at the following meeting on November 3.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-530\nWatch: https://youtu.be/FwUsH30dM88?list=PLrJHixxvd6Ci2aafHFuW8lHGncfBKWeuB\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/584
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-530
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251104
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nEight land decisions in one night\, all unanimous. The board annexed five properties totalling about 11.2 acres and rezoned three more\, two of them adjoining lots on N Main Street moving toward corridor commercial.\n\nThree of the five annexations are neighbouring properties on Fayetteville Road\, taken in successive votes. The board also adopted the county's revised emergency operations plan and recognized insurance money for vandalism at a park building.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11032025-531\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/live/J380oVw1xAo?si=5c95PO8cvVEn34Uk\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/583
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11032025-531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-576@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260206
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Strategic Town Board Retreat-Feb. 5-6\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board spent two days setting priorities and\, on the two biggest questions\, chose restraint. It will advance one of four candidate transportation projects\, and only after testing what it does to town finances\, having concluded that the existing $57 million portfolio must be substantially finished before taking on another that could move the property tax rate.\n\nOn parks it did the same. The five-year plan was built around a $60 million bond referendum that failed in 2024\, and recreation fees in lieu will not cover it. The board picked two projects\, Action Park improvements and the Fleming Loop turf conversion\, and deliberately left the rest until it has another year of growth data.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052026-575\nWatch: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/1013/Watch-Meetings\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/576
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052026-575
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-610@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Planning Board Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe planning board recommended a package of code changes with real consequences for how development gets reviewed. Traffic impact analyses will now be required at the first phase\, including at rezoning\, so the board sees the traffic picture before it votes rather than after.\n\nIt also recommended two rezonings to town center residential\, approved a 17-lot preliminary plat on Johnson Pond Road\, and tabled a downtown rezoning indefinitely at the petitioner's request. One resident used a rezoning hearing to press the town on tree replacement.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-556\nWatch: https://youtu.be/5g1bkQ-zz3g?list=PLrJHixxvd6CijcgAMYU4BRNPmtggTmUIU\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/610
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-556
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1417@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners hold a public hearing on annexing 1210 Phelps West Road for Phelps West Farms LLC\, and take first readings — no final vote yet — on two rezonings (708 S Fuquay Avenue\, and a combined 501 North Street/904 Ransdell Road parcel) plus three town code amendments covering the Land Development Ordinance\, the 2040 Community Vision Land Use Plan\, and the 2040 Comprehensive Transportation Plan.\n\nThe consent agenda adds a second annexation petition on Johnson Pond Road\, a recreation fee-in-lieu payment for the Randall Farms subdivision\, and budget amendments funding the South Park Community Center renovation and reimbursing the police department for an insurance claim. Staff will also brief the board on a proposed parking-fee increase and ask it to adopt a water shortage response plan resolution.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-557\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/urgamsyibaM\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1417
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-557
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-570@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260505
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nNineteen residents spoke\, and fourteen of them came to oppose the town's proposed improvements to Hilltop Needmore Town Park. The board took no vote on the park\; every member answered from the dais instead\, and the mayor set out why the town is looking at the 148-acre site at all.\n\nThe agenda itself moved without dissent: an annexation on Johnson Pond Road\, two rezonings from residential to town center residential\, three code amendments carrying the land development ordinance and both 2040 plans\, and an eleven-item consent agenda. The board also picked a design-build team for Fleming Loop Park.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05042026-558\nWatch: https://youtu.be/lE19B1UHfSc\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/570
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05042026-558
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-566@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260707
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260708
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nFuquay-Varina's commissioners picked the firms to build two parks and heard what the town is spending to treat its sewage. The wastewater figures are the larger story: $69 million to double the Terrible Creek plant and a $44 million share of a $111 million expansion in Harnett County.\n\nNo public hearings and no consent agenda. The board also took an update on water restrictions\, which the town must follow whenever Raleigh imposes them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07072026-572\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/nr9XSmjVC6Q?feature=share\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/566
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07072026-572
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-608@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260720
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260721
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Planning Board Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nFour rezonings\, and one of them drew the neighbourhood out. A builder wants to replace a derelict duplex at 417 and 419 Raleigh Street with three detached houses\, which needs a rezoning to Town Center Residential\, and seven residents came to object to the scale and the ten-foot setbacks.\n\nThe board also took a 1950s convenience store that wants to sell fuel\, a 27-acre planned unit development on Sunset Lake Road\, and a small rezoning on South West Street. It recommends\; the town board decides.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07202026-576\nWatch: https://youtu.be/iL7oGPG7TSA?list=PLrJHixxvd6CijcgAMYU4BRNPmtggTmUIU\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/608
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07202026-576
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1411@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260803
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260804
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nFuquay-Varina's Board of Commissioners handled a routine consent agenda August 3 -- an assessment abatement on Longfellow Street\, an annexation petition for Callis Properties on Piney Grove Wilbon Road\, and a condemnation resolution for property needed at the Old Honeycutt Road/Kennebec Road intersection -- alongside two large contract awards: a $151\,455 railroad crossing closure at Wilbur Jones Road/Johnson Pond Road\, and a contract to build a 1-million-gallon elevated water storage tank on Wilbon Road. The meeting also gives first readings to four zoning map amendments that would come back for public hearings later in August: two by Mauldin Watkins Surveying (210 S West Street and 417 & 419 Raleigh Street)\, one combined rezoning and land use plan amendment by Sampson-Bladen Oil Company for the same Piney Grove Wilbon Road tract as the annexation petition\, and one by M/I Homes of Raleigh for Sunset Lake Road.\n\nThe board also welcomes new Economic Development Director Kelly Gordon\, marks National Farmers Market Week\, and pins badges on new fire department hires. Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so no outcomes are recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08032026-577\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/live/t7sysZkNwtM?si=sX8jtcSf2j4oqh0e\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1411
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08032026-577
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1410@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260819
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nFuquay-Varina's Board of Commissioners took up five land-use public hearings on August 18: two voluntary annexation petitions and three zoning map amendments\, one of which (Sampson-Bladen Oil Company\, Piney Grove Wilbon Road) pairs a rezoning with a land use plan amendment. A sixth rezoning\, for 7151 Sunset Lake Road\, appeared later on the agenda as a first reading rather than a hearing. The board also opened with a Fire Department helmet-retirement presentation honoring Battalion Chief William Johnston and Fire Captain Sam Golightly\, and its administrative reports include a $20.1 million guaranteed-maximum-price amendment for Public Service Center Phase II with Edifice General Contractors.\n\nOne annexation petition -- for Collin Grimes\, Jennifer Grimes\, David and Dava Davis\, and Rebecca Shelton Davis on Wade Nash Road (ANX-2023-13)\, left over from a previous meeting -- is marked on the agenda itself as an item to be tabled\, rather than acted on. Because only the agenda was available for this meeting\, not minutes\, the outcomes of the hearings and the consent agenda are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182026-580\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/sXH9VKfDHK0\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1410
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182026-580
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260922
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Planning Board Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nFuquay-Varina's Planning Board held public hearings on two rezonings on 21 September. WakeMed asked to rezone 4.77 acres at 6126 Dwight Rowland Road from residential agricultural to general commercial conditional zoning\, the site of its proposed standalone emergency department next to its existing facility. Gemstone Homes asked to rezone 0.99 acres at 602 and 606 S Main Street to Town Center Residential for eight alley-loaded row houses. Staff recommended approval of both.\n\nThe staff report also listed where earlier cases stood with the Town Board. Two were tabled to 22 September: M/I Homes' 27.63-acre planned development on Sunset Lake Road\, over the site's place in the Jones-Johnson-Ballentine Historic District\, and a 0.414-acre rezoning at 417 and 419 Raleigh Street. Envision Homes' 48.81-acre request at 7151 Sunset Lake Road was postponed to 5 October at the petitioner's request.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09212026-585\nWatch: https://youtu.be/ZhHjvmX788Y?list=PLrJHixxvd6CijcgAMYU4BRNPmtggTmUIU\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3136
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09212026-585
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3134@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260923
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nFuquay-Varina's board takes first readings on two rezonings Tuesday and tables two others for another month. WakeMed Health and Hospitals wants 6126 Dwight Rowland Road rezoned with a matching land use plan amendment\, and Gemstone Homes wants 602 and 606 South Main Street. Both are first readings\, so the vote that decides them comes later.\n\nThe two tabled cases have been waiting: M/I Homes' rezoning on Sunset Lake Road and a two-parcel case on Raleigh Street\, both carried over again from a previous meeting. The consent agenda holds a voluntary annexation of 980 Wilbon Road\, a utility allocation for the Madden West subdivision\, a roadway fee in lieu from Guthrie's\, and an ordinance dropping the speed limit on Bridge Street between Northwest Judd Parkway and NC 42. Under administrative reports the board takes a master encroachment agreement with Google Fiber\, which is what lets the company work in town rights of way.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-586\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/PEGgssZOY_4\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3134
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4702@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T180627Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261006
SUMMARY:Town of Fuquay-Varina: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nFuquay-Varina's commissioners hold a public hearing Monday on rezoning 4.77 acres at 6126 Dwight Rowland Road for WakeMed's planned freestanding emergency department\, which the state approved in July 2025. A second hearing would rezone 48.81 acres at 7151 Sunset Lake Road for Envision Homes as a planned unit development of up to 105 small-lot homes and townhouses. The town also annexes its own 1.5-acre water tank site on Wilbon Road. A fourth hearing\, on Gemstone Homes' rezoning at 602 and 606 South Main Street\, is to be tabled.\n\nTwo rezonings tabled from earlier return. M/I Homes asks to rezone 27.63 acres on Sunset Lake Road\, inside the Jones-Johnson-Ballentine Historic District\, for up to 48 detached homes\; the site's pond is a high-hazard dam under a state violation notice and is to be drained. A three-lot row house plan at 417 and 419 Raleigh Street is the other. The Planning Board recommended all four rezonings unanimously. On consent\, the board closes 22 finished capital projects and moves about $3.5 million in general funds to the Sunset Lake\, Purfoy and Main Street intersection and two new parks.\n\nAgenda: https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10052026-587\nWatch: https://youtube.com/live/FO4Ek7mN0PI\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4702
URL:https://www.fuquay-varina.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10052026-587
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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