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Fuquay-Varina’s planning board will consider allowing a Raleigh developer to add a new subdivision to the northeast part of town Monday — one with a greenway and open spaces for sports and exercise.
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Silva Preserves will be a 105-unit subdivision on the roughly 49 acres located at 7151 Sunset Lake Road, according to the development master plan authored by Raleigh firm Curry Engineering Group. The property, currently zoned for Residential Agricultural use, is a wooded area with open space where a house used to be.
The new subdivision, proposed by Raleigh builder Envision Homes, would sit just north of North Main Street and Bengal Towne Centre, near neighborhoods like Fern Valley, Smith Farms and Cheek Park.
Envision Homes is asking the town to rezone the property from Residential Agricultural to a Planned Unit Development (PUD) zoning district, which would allow up to 293 units. Town planning staff who reviewed the Silva Preserves plan recommended the Planning Board approve the rezoning request.
Of the 105 single-family units, 64 will be single-family homes and 41 will be townhomes, according to the master plan. The plan calls for detached units and a style of townhomes that Curry Engineering says the Fuquay-Varina area has yet to see: attached units that are wider than the average townhome but have the look of a single family home.
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A “lengthy public greenway” will run through Silva Preserves, according to the master plan. Roughly 25 of the 49 acres in the neighborhood will be reserved for open space, almost double what Fuquay-Varina requires in a PUD. Some of the open space will be used to provide outdoor games like cornhole and table tennis, outdoor exercise equipment, a community garden and a playground.
Curry Engineering held a virtual meeting May 13 with residents in nearby neighborhoods to discuss Silva Preserves. The firm’s vice president, Andrew Petty, said it would likely take 18 months to secure approval for the project to break ground and another 12 to 18 months before any houses went up, according to the summary of the meeting.
Several residents asked about flooding and stormwater control, according to the meeting summary — concerned about previous flooding on Terrible Creek, along which Silva Preserves will run. Petty said the firm had begun some environmental studies and would contact the state Corps of Engineers and Department of Water Resources to see what mitigation measures were necessary.
Silva Preserves joins Randall Farms as proposed subdivisions in northeast Fuquay-Varina under review by the town. If approved by the Planning Board on Monday, the Town Council will review the plan at its next meeting Sept. 8.
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