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Planning Board Special "Called" Work Session

Town of Wake Forest · Planning Board Special "Called" Work Session
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 at 7:13 pm

Work session Parks and recreationArts and public artComprehensive planFees and utility ratesLand conversion and large developmentZoning text amendment

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What's on this agenda

The Wake Forest Planning Board's specially called work session covered three separate projects rather than one: a seventh working session on the town's Unified Development Ordinance rewrite, a public comment session on the draft 2024 Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Master Plan, and a briefing on a proposed increase to the parks impact fee developers pay. None of the three called for a board vote.

The parks master plan, last updated in 2015, goes to a Board of Commissioners public hearing on September 17. The impact fee study found the town's current fee well below what its own cost analysis would support, a change state law requires the Planning Board to weigh in on before commissioners can adopt it.

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Agenda items (6)

Procedural · 3Discussion item · 2Presentation · 1
  1. Call to Order
    Procedural
  2. Adoption of Agenda
    Procedural
  3. Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Comprehensive Update - Work Session #7
    Discussion item Zoning text amendment
    This was the seventh work session on the town's Unified Development Ordinance rewrite, covering revisions made to the draft chapters since the board's last look in spring 2024. No votes were on the agenda; the session gathered board feedback ahead of the ordinance's eventual adoption.
  4. Presentation and Public Comment Session on the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Department Master Plan Process Update
    Presentation Arts and public artComprehensive planParks and recreation
    Consultant McAdams presented the draft 2024 Parks, Recreation and Cultural Resources Master Plan, an update to the 2015 plan shaped by a scientific survey, focus groups and staff input. The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board endorsed the draft in July; the Board of Commissioners holds a public hearing on it September 17.
  5. Presentation of Parks & Recreation Impact Fee Update
    Discussion item Fees and utility ratesLand conversion and large developmentParks and recreation
    A study by Benesch calculated new parks and recreation impact fees of $8,856 per single-family home and $4,789 per multi-family unit, versus $3,691 and $2,202 today. State law requires the Planning Board to weigh in before the Board of Commissioners can adopt the increase.
  6. Adjournment
    Procedural

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