Angier Hits Another Growth Spurt

Board expands borders, approves zoning for new 344-home development

By Emily Weaver
Dunn Daily Record

ANGIER – Angier’s town limits continue to grow. The board of commissioners unanimously approved a request to annex nearly 145 acres from Wake County into the town limits and to rezone the land for a future housing subdivision at a meeting Tuesday.

The rezoning comes with conditions.

Once developed, the site will host up to 344 single family lots, a pool, pocket parks and sidewalks. It will be next door to the Highland Ridge subdivision currently under construction.

“We’re compatible with the subdivision next door. They’re stubbing a road to these two tracts,” said Jim Chandler, a principal and engineer with Timmons Group’s Private Residential Division based in Raleigh.

“We’re coordinating that layout to show that road connection there so we’ll promote inner-connectivity between the two subdivisions,” Chandler pointed out to board members at the meeting.

But a couple of neighbors living east and southeast of the proposed development don’t want connectivity between the subdivision and their adjoining farms. The board approved the rezoning with an extra condition that developers meet with those specific property owners to address potential fencing.

Other conditions call for the development to include:

• only single family lots

• no more than 344 total lots

• lots that are at least 6,000 square feet in size with 178 of them required to be between 7,000 and 10,000 square feet and at least 45 of them at least 10,000 square feet

• lots with a minimum width of at least 50 feet

• minimum building setbacks as required in the zoning ordinance
  
• curbs, gutters and 5-foot sidewalks on both sides of each proposed street and along the road frontage on Wimberly Road which stubs each adjacent property

• a minimum of 20% or up to 10 acres of open space preserved. (Plans for the property call for 40% of the land to be preserved for open space.)
  
• a 15-foot Type A landscape buffer between a proposed lot and a current neighboring property

• two-car garages with all homes

• at least two different finishes for the facade of each home

• a minimum of four active recreational open spaces

• improvements to each of the recreational and usable open space areas determined at construction drawings for each respective phase. (Gathering areas with benches and picnic tables, tot lots, play lawns, dog parks, shade shelter/gazebo are some examples of those active recreational spaces.)

• a neighborhood recreation amenity area with a cabana and a pool.

• and, westbound right turn lanes and eastbound left turn lanes installed to DOT standards to serve each proposed access to the subdivision on Wimberly Road.

The homes are estimated to range in size from 1,800 square feet on the small end to 2,600-2,800 square feet on the large end.

If the homes were brought to market today, developers estimate they would sell in the $300,000-400,000 range. It should take a couple of years before the homes actually hit the market.