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Planning Board Meeting

Town of Apex · Planning Board
Monday, December 8, 2025 at 12:00 pm · Town Hall Council Chamber, 73 Hunter Street, Apex

Regular meeting RezoningHousing and affordabilityRoads and transportationComprehensive planLand conversion and large developmentTransitWater and sewer

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What was decided

  1. Approved PH4Transportation Plan Amendments - Thoroughfare, Collector, Bicycle and Pedestrian Maps Approved unanimously, 7-0 with one member recused
  2. Approved PH5Transportation Plan Amendments - Transit Plan Map Approved unanimously, 7-0 with one member recused

Read from the agenda's recorded outcomes. Where the board published minutes, those are the record — this is a pointer to them.

What's on this agenda

Six hearings, the largest of them a rezoning of about 1,097 acres. Three smaller rezonings, two sets of transportation plan amendments, and development ordinance amendments carried over from November.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

The board turned one rezoning down and approved the rest, including the biggest case it has seen this year.

The denial was about three acres at 8905 Castleberry Road, asking to move from a Wake County residential district to low density residential conditional zoning. It was inconsistent with the 2045 land use plan. Board members put their objection simply: that much pavement for three houses did not fit. The vote to deny was unanimous, and the board recorded a finding that while the proposal meets standard development requirements, concerns about the location remain.

The largest item was Veridea, about 1,097.15 acres consolidated out of four existing sustainable development approvals plus rural residential, light industrial and a planned unit development into a single sustainable development conditional zoning, with transportation plan amendments to the thoroughfare, collector, bicycle, pedestrian and transit maps alongside it. One member was recused for that block of items. All three passed unanimously with the remaining seven.

Two small rezonings were approved. One took 4.80 acres at 2224 New Hill Olive Chapel Road into low density residential conditional zoning, which a member described as straightforward: a resident's well has run dry and they need to connect to town water to keep living in the house. The other took about half an acre at 3521 Old US 1 from a 2011 neighbourhood business zoning to planned commercial for an auto dealership. Nobody spoke on either.

How the votes went

Eight votes, all unanimous with two members absent. Seven approvals at 8-0 or 7-0 depending on a recusal, and one denial at 8-0.

From the published minutes.

Who spoke

No members of the public spoke.

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Agenda items (6)

Public hearing · 4Ordinance · 2
  1. PH1 Rezoning Case #25CZ11 - 8905 Castleberry Road, Tracts 10 & 11
    Public hearing Comprehensive planHousing and affordabilityRezoning
    About three acres from Wake County residential to low density residential conditional zoning, inconsistent with the 2045 land use plan. Members said the proposal put too much pavement in for three houses.
    Recommended for denial unanimously, 8-0
    • 8905 Castleberry Rd · Koneru, Sri Lakshmi Devabhakthuni, Ramya · 2.0 acres · assessed $482,969
  2. PH2 Rezoning Case #25CZ13 - 2224 New Hill Olive Chapel Road
    Public hearing RezoningWater and sewer
    About 4.80 acres from Wake County residential districts to low density residential conditional zoning, consistent with the 2045 land use map. A resident's well has run dry and the household needs to connect to town water to stay in the home.
    Recommended for approval unanimously, 8-0
  3. PH3 Rezoning Case #25CZ16 - 3521 Old US 1
    Public hearing Rezoning
    About 0.53 acres from a 2011 neighbourhood business conditional zoning to planned commercial conditional zoning, for an auto dealership. Consistent with the 2045 land use map. Nobody spoke.
    Recommended for approval unanimously, 8-0
  4. PH4 Transportation Plan Amendments - Thoroughfare, Collector, Bicycle and Pedestrian Maps
    Ordinance Roads and transportation
    Amendments related to the Veridea sustainable development plan.
    Approved unanimously, 7-0 with one member recused
  5. PH5 Transportation Plan Amendments - Transit Plan Map
    Ordinance Roads and transportationTransit
    Amendments related to the Veridea sustainable development plan.
    Approved unanimously, 7-0 with one member recused
  6. PH6 Rezoning Case #25CZ18 - Veridea SD Plan Amendments
    Public hearing Housing and affordabilityLand conversion and large developmentRezoning
    About 1,097.15 acres consolidated from four existing sustainable development conditional zonings plus rural residential, light industrial and a planned unit development into a single sustainable development conditional zoning.
    Recommended for approval unanimously, 7-0 with one member recused

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