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Garner council approves North Garner Middle School rebuild after debate over stormwater controls
Summary
The Garner Town Council voted 4–1 on Nov. 3 to approve a special-use permit for Wake County Public Schools to replace North Garner Middle School with a 197,730-square-foot building on a 17.79-acre site, after an extended council debate focused on stormwater mitigation, parking and traffic queuing.
The Garner Town Council on Nov. 3 approved a special-use permit allowing Wake County Public Schools to replace North Garner Middle School with a single 197,730-square-foot building on a 17.79-acre tract at 720 Powell Drive.
The vote followed a quasi‑judicial hearing and nearly four hours of presentation and questions. Planning staff summarized the application and environmental and design findings; the applicant described a phased build in which students would move into the new building around April 2028 and the overall project would finish around April 2029.
Town planning staff (Joseph Linsky) told the council the project meets the town's Unified Development Ordinance requirements, that impervious surface on the site will be reduced and that the site meets landscape and…
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