Maintain the Sense of a Small Community
Wake Forest has made the top ten places to work or live several times in the past decade. To accommodate the influx of new residents, the Wake Forest Commissioners grant rezonings for multi-story apartment complexes, accept more traffic lights that impede traffic flow, and increase the number of subdivisions. As a result, many Wake Forest residents think that the dense housing and higher mixed-use residential developments are ruining Wake Forest’s heritage of a small-town feel.
Abby’s Solutions:
1: Advocate for more resident feedback when re-zonings and improvements are proposed for development, and earnestly weigh that feedback to the decision to approve or deny the change.
2: Amend Section 2.2.3.G.2 of the current UDO so that Residential, Neighborhood, and Urban Mixed-Uses are capped at 4 stories or less, from the current 6 stories.