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Town of Wake Forest · Board of Adjustment
Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 5:58 pm

Regular meeting Housing and affordabilitySubdivision and site plans

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What was decided

  1. Continued 5.APublic Hearing and Consideration on QUASI-JUDICIAL ITEM BOA-23-05 Variance Requests for 500, 501, and 508 Sun Meadow Drive Tabled unanimously to 21 March 2024

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What's on this agenda

Wake Forest's Board of Adjustment takes its first hearing on BOA-23-05, a setback variance for three lots around the Sun Meadow Drive cul-de-sac in the Radford Glen subdivision. Taylor Morrison, which bought the lots from the developer, wants relief from the maximum garage and front setbacks that the neighborhood's own rezoning conditions imposed.

Staff say the ordinance already offers a way out. A 10 percent administrative modification, or 24 inches, whichever is greater, can be granted without any variance at all, and staff's position is that all three lots can meet both setbacks that way. The board hears the case as a quasi-judicial matter, so witnesses are sworn and a variance needs a four-fifths concurring vote.

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Meeting recap

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

The board tabled the variance. After hearing the staff report and a presentation from an engineer at McAdams for Taylor Morrison, members could not agree to approve or deny the required findings of fact, and voted unanimously to carry BOA-23-05 over to 21 March. The meeting adjourned at 7:43 p.m.

Most of the questioning turned on the first finding, unnecessary hardship, and on whether the lots could comply without a variance. Staff said they could, using the 24-inch or 10 percent administrative deviation, and confirmed under questioning that the town's position is that all three lots can meet the ordinance. The applicant's engineer said flipping the house plans to change the driveway angles had been considered but would break the minimum setback on one lot, and that the neighbouring lot 18 had already been sold and built.

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Agenda items (7)

Procedural · 3Minutes approval · 1Public hearing · 1Staff or committee report · 1Discussion item · 1
  1. 1 Call to Order
    Procedural
    The board opens the meeting. A quorum is established.
  2. 2 Adoption of Agenda
    Procedural
    The board adopts its agenda.
    Adopted 5-0
  3. 3.A Approval of Minutes
    Minutes approval
    Draft minutes from the 18 January meeting come up for approval.
  4. 5.A Public Hearing and Consideration on QUASI-JUDICIAL ITEM BOA-23-05 Variance Requests for 500, 501, and 508 Sun Meadow Drive
    Public hearing Housing and affordabilitySubdivision and site plans
    The first evidentiary hearing on Taylor Morrison's request to relax the maximum garage and front setbacks on three lots around the Sun Meadow Drive cul-de-sac. Staff report that a 24-inch or 10 percent administrative modification, already available under the ordinance, would let all three lots comply without a variance.
    Tabled unanimously to 21 March 2024
    • 508 Sun Meadow Dr · Hulsure, Rohan Shedge, Shraddha · 0.18 acres · assessed $512,444
    • 500 Sun Meadow Dr · Srinivasa, Rajanikanth Kotagal Bijapurkar, Madhuri · 0.16 acres · assessed $581,803
    • 501 Sun Meadow Dr · Nagari, Bhargavi · 0.16 acres · assessed $512,444
  5. 6 Staff Comments
    Staff or committee report
    No comments.
  6. 7 Board of Adjustment Comments
    Discussion item
    No comments.
  7. 8 Adjournment
    Procedural
    The board adjourned at 7:43 p.m.

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