The Sanford-Lee County Planning Department will review proposals for even more new housing at its Technical Review Committee meeting later in September.
Most of the new housing under review this month is outside the city limits, with a proposal to expand the River Falls subdivision at the intersection of Sheriff Watson and Holder Roads near Lemon Springs by 101 lots, as well as a 44 lot proposal at McMillan Lane off U.S. 1 south of Tramway.
The River Falls expansion, if approved, would be developed in three phases. The first would consist of 13 lots, the second would have 29, and the third would have 59. The average lot size would be just over 45,000 square feet. The site area for the proposal is more than 132 acres.
The second proposal, dubbed the McMillan Lane Subdivision, would sit off Sugar Maple Road which is an access road to U.S. 1 south of Rocky Fork Church Road. It would have 44 homes on nearly 76 acres, and the lots would have a minimum size of 40,000 square feet.
A third proposal calls for a 28-unit apartment building on 2.35 acres on Harkey Road between Hughes Street and Woodland Avenue.
The Technical Review Committee will also consider proposals for the following:
- An Ace Hardware in Tramway in the currently vacant field between Marketplace Drive and Pegg Street,
- An Autozone in the same shopping center,
- An expansion of the Circle K store at 1612 Tramway Road, and
- Two new industrial buildings at the Central Carolina Enterprise Park.
The TRC is comprised of local officials from various city and county government entities representing Sanford, Lee County and Broadway, and meets monthly to review commercial proposals and major subdivisions for compliance with the codes and policies of various public service providers. Committee approval does not guarantee that projects submitted for review will be developed — only that they fall under compliance.
Need another grocery store in Tramway !
We definitely need another grocery store in Tramway with all the building in progress.
Tramway is becoming a nightmare for folks that have lived there for decades.
Glad someone understands, there’s Tramway school traffic, which is a nightmare, the new apts opening soon, the new Sheetz going up, Foodlion is the only grocery store in the area,
I avoid that intersection like the plague! When school is in session. I go to all the Harris Teeters north and south from Sanford. The city wants that intersection as a go around, or circle, you won’t be able to turn left at some point, you’ll have to go down the street and due a U turn. Or that is what I was told, I can’t see it happening. MY house payment is below $2000.00, I have three vehicles that are paid for, but I can’t see a family being able to afford a new home and all that goes into it.
The police officers should not be directing traffic. The guy can’t see over the hill on Center Church Road to see what he is doing to the traffic at the intersection!! Get yourself a “crossing Guard”, that’s all you need at that school, stop using my police. And make those mothers that take one vehicle to the school with one kid, make them wait. I’ve watched as the police person had to wait to get the attention of the person in the vehicle while at the intersection eighteen wheelers were backed up. Buy up that land on the corner Henley and Center Church Road, and they could go out onto Henley. Then you could put a streetlight at the intersection on Center church road and Henley. No Police no crossing guard. All the folks that want to pick up their kids can then sit at that light.
The corner of Henley and Center church has already been bought. They’re putting a housing development there.
Wish those wanting all this would take their tails to wake county and live since they trying so hard to make Lee like Wake with no woods, no rural areas, just roof tops and bumper to bumper I for one Hate what Lee County has become, I’ve lived here for 60 years and never dreamed it be like this never
Need to develop more out near Food Lion on #1!
The parents picking up their kids are sitting in the road, not pulled off the shoulder, you can’t go around them , this was not thought out very well, looked good on paper, does not work !!
I would have hoped that our county would stayed like the Lee County I knew when I moved here 30 years. There will more problems than they know. They should consider the long term effects of all of this build projects.
And we build up Lee County just so we can take our money out of town to shop, eat decent food and entertainment for ourselves and children. Any one think about where these children are going to school. Our schools are already overcrowded and our teachers are working out of county because they make more money. We go out of the county for quality medical care. Need to stop building apartments and houses and start looking after the people that live here and take their money out of the county for food, medical care and entertainment.
That is a very good point and I agree 💯
I definitely agree 💯.
JB you can fight gravity.
Pinehurst/Southern Pines and Apex/Cary exert an economic gravity pull on Sanford because they are both less than 40 minutes away and within their planet or world as you might call it, they have a higher concentration of wealthier people than Sanford. Sanford is like a large moon or small planet in the scheme of things. Raleigh and the Triangle are our Sun. We rotate around them.
No stand alone hospital can exist in Sanford. The ownership/partner choices are Moore Regional, UNC, Duke, and Wake Med. There will never be a Level 1 trauma center in Sanford, nor a Level 2 because there are already four surrounding Sanford. Think of those places as high mountains or volcanos and the specialists are going to grow on the slopes of that mountain. Sanford is at the bottom of the hill. But it could be very much worse.
Unless you 70 or so, you forget that Sanford and Jonesboro were two separate towns. You forget that Sanford has not one downtown or city center but two. It causes Sanford to sprawl out like a giant dumbbell. Right now the economic power is in the south, but the north is getting ready to take off again after not growing commercially for the last 35 years. You CAN’T bring the two centers together so you have to plan for multiple centers.
That goes against most urban planning modeling which is an economic model that says being near the center is more valuable than being in the boondocks. That’s why the Sanford of 2050 will have an urban node in Deep River, Northview, Sanford, Jonesboro, Tramway, and Broadway.
I have to agree with JB. We need to overhaul our county’s hospital system. Pay our medical workers more, instead of spending money to make the emergency room larger. I don’t want to go to sit and wait, but to get treated in a timely manner.
Hubert Reep tried to keep the Hospital under County Control but was outvoted in the late 70’s early 80’s. Today there is a rump board that is actually responsible for nothing as the facility is under contract for management. The County is not going back into the hospital business. The only game in town is UNC, Duke, Wake Med, and First Health which is Moore County. The wages the hospital can pay is based on what those four are willing to pay.
What the City and County can do is limited to things like upgrading Fields Drive, tearing down part of the adjoining low income near the Elks Club to create buildable medical building sites. Upgrading Carthage Street for God’s sake, etc.
That means dealing with NC DOT and with pissed off doctors who already have their buildings and clients. It means not overbuilding in competition with what Duke and UNC are doing in Pittsboro.
If you don’t want to wait at the emergency room never go on a Friday or Saturday night. That’s not a joke.
I don’t know what the County’s and the State’s TIP plan is for Swanns Station Road, but now is the time to plan for it to be multi lane and divided. Hickory House to Sherriff Watson to NC 87. You need an east west north of the Upper Little River and one south of Juniper Creek. You need a Lemon Springs small area plan so that you can maintain any of it looking like an actual community instead of a sea residential and strip commercial. The soils in that area take septic tanks meaning that dense development is possible without City sewer.