The Sanford/Lee County Zoning & Design Review Department‘s Technical Review Committee will consider four proposals for multifamily complexes totaling more than 500 units later this month, according to the meeting agenda.
The first complex proposal on the agenda for June 29, Cole Village Apartments, is the largest and would consist of 312 units at 3410 Hawkins Avenue. It is the former site of Cole Pottery, just north of the Oak Park Road intersection.
Another set of proposals, for Harkey Towns North and Harkey Towns South, would consist of a combined 156 townhome units on Harkey Road near the intersection with Garden Street.
The final proposal, the Keller Andrews Road Townhome Subdivision, would consist of 66 townhome units along Keller Andrews Road, facing U.S. 1 and next to Lee Christian School.
The meeting agenda notes that each of the four properties would need to be annexed into the city and rezoned accordingly before they could be developed as proposed.
The Technical Review Committee is comprised of local officials from various city and county government entities representing Sanford, Lee County and Broadway. The committee meets monthly to review commercial projects and major subdivisions for compliance with the codes and policies of various local departments. Committee members make no guarantee that the projects submitted for review will be developed — only that they fall under compliance. The proposals could also be amended due to recommendations or requests from the TRC.
I am meddling to be sure, but I think the City needs to require a historic marker placed at Cole’s Pottery as well as several clay samples from from the site of the current building and going back every 200 feet or so to the creek.
This may or may not have been covered in some work done about 25-35 years ago by Dan Pezzoni and Mary Ellen Bowen.
It need not hold up any work, but it’s important to keep track of this site in relationship to the other potteries in and around Jugtown and along the old Deep River/Coal Seam/Triassic Basin Front.
I agree whole heartedly with the suggestion to commemorate Cole Pottery.
TRC Sanford is full, stop building apartments/houses. Keep Sanford a small town.
Kas – You’re right. Sanford is full. That’s why they are building more houses and apartments. Demand is greater than supply. Sanford is growing, and there is nothing that will stop it in the foreseeable future.
Kas,
Full for Sanford will be about 60K in the City with a developmental model that mirrors Fuquay Varina combined with Hillsboro. Increased density makes providing services affordable. The Lee County School system, combined with so many religious charters makes it difficult to foresee upscale development at a significant density.
Wake and Chatham have a big advantage that way. In that sense, Sanford will always be somewhat separate from the Triangle at least for the next 50 or so years.
Let’s look at some paving for these streets before things gets busier too. What government idiot keeps approving the paving company on Franklin and now Pendergrass to pave a 16” strip on the edge of the road and leave huge piles of dirt behind to clean up?! Like really?
Are they widening the road?
Are the installing utilities?
It’s in the county so you can call NCDOT in Asheboro to find out.
Sanford needs to build a casino on 421 north or us 1 north or us1 south before Raleigh and Durham build one.