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Great video!! Excellent overview. Great insight and info. Certainly agree with your plea to the Town Council and Planning Department of Wake Forest to avoid the "concrete jungle". They will need to update their UDO to address and reduce the clearing limits you mention. The problem is the developers do NOT care as their priority is to cut & clear, develop, build, profit, leave and move on. They will push back and push hard on such limits of tree clearing given it is more expensive and can easily hold the Town hostage to the point that if WF makes it too hard, they will build somewhere else. Its a game about money and profits. Additionally, the Town Council and Planning Department are likely collectively more interested in the tax base increasing and will cooperate (make it easy) for the developers. Lastly, this was not mentioned in your excellent video, but the WF roads are dreadful. Sadly, it is too late to really do anything about this given the fast pace of development. Too bad as a solid example of how to have roads pre-expanded would be the Cary area with West Cary roads being mostly 2 lanes each way long before the new construction came. Even the old Maynard Blvd loop was expanded 10 years ahead of its time. WF can learn a thing or two. All said, even with my comments not the most favorable, WE LOVE WF and especially the HERITAGE subdivision, which is a wonderful example how NOT to cut & clear as the original development was super tree friendly. Phew...
Thank you for watching! Agree that the developers are not concerned with maintaining the character of Wake Forest. I know Wake Forest won't make sweeping changes, but even increasing buffer requirements a certain amount could make a big difference in the long run.
The planning committee should leave intermittent patches of land with untouched trees as public parks. And also agree with the bad traffic conditions here. I moved from Cary and the difference is quite stark to me. No wonder property values are so high in Cary.
If you have any real estate needs in the Raleigh/Durham area, we would love to help! Please reach out via our contact information below:
Phone: 919-504-5265
Email: alison@thewgroupraleigh.com
Website: www.thewgroupraleigh.com
Great video!! Excellent overview. Great insight and info.
Certainly agree with your plea to the Town Council and Planning Department of Wake Forest to avoid the "concrete jungle". They will need to update their UDO to address and reduce the clearing limits you mention. The problem is the developers do NOT care as their priority is to cut & clear, develop, build, profit, leave and move on. They will push back and push hard on such limits of tree clearing given it is more expensive and can easily hold the Town hostage to the point that if WF makes it too hard, they will build somewhere else. Its a game about money and profits. Additionally, the Town Council and Planning Department are likely collectively more interested in the tax base increasing and will cooperate (make it easy) for the developers. Lastly, this was not mentioned in your excellent video, but the WF roads are dreadful. Sadly, it is too late to really do anything about this given the fast pace of development. Too bad as a solid example of how to have roads pre-expanded would be the Cary area with West Cary roads being mostly 2 lanes each way long before the new construction came. Even the old Maynard Blvd loop was expanded 10 years ahead of its time. WF can learn a thing or two. All said, even with my comments not the most favorable, WE LOVE WF and especially the HERITAGE subdivision, which is a wonderful example how NOT to cut & clear as the original development was super tree friendly. Phew...
Thank you for watching! Agree that the developers are not concerned with maintaining the character of Wake Forest. I know Wake Forest won't make sweeping changes, but even increasing buffer requirements a certain amount could make a big difference in the long run.
The planning committee should leave intermittent patches of land with untouched trees as public parks. And also agree with the bad traffic conditions here. I moved from Cary and the difference is quite stark to me. No wonder property values are so high in Cary.
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Thank you!