What can I build on this property?
It depends on the zoning district and whether the parcel is inside town limits or the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), both of which are governed by the same Unified Development Ordinance (UDO). Single-family detached homes are permitted in every residential and mixed-use district in this pack (RD, GR3, GR5, GR10, UR, RMX, RA HC, NMX, UMX, PUD); duplexes are permitted starting at GR5 and in the urban form-based districts (UR, RMX, RA HC, NMX, UMX), but not in GR3 or RD (UDO Sec. 2.3.3 use table). Commercial and industrial districts (NB, HB, ICD, LI, HI) have their own use tables with categories for retail, office, restaurant, institutional, and industrial uses; specific use-by-use designations for those districts are review-gated in this pack pending a complete read of every use-table column, so confirm your specific use with the zoning district shown on the current Official Zoning Map or with the Planning Department at 919-435-9510 before acting. This pack covers the July 2022 Unified Development Ordinance, the version currently in force; a comprehensive UDO rewrite is in progress but not yet adopted.
Sources
Full text: Wake Forest ordinance on Town-hosted flipbook (FlippingBook viewer, not Municode). Applies to districts: GR5, UR.
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