Wesley Chapel NC is ten years old and the town is throwing a birthday party Saturday September 6, 2008. The celebration will take place at Village Commons Shopping Center, which is the "downtown" for the village. Like many other areas in Union County NC, Wesley Chapel incorporated in 1998 to control its growth and maintain its relatively rural nature.
Ten years ago, the crossroads of Waxhaw-Indian Trail Road and Weddington Road had Siler Presbyterian Church and little else except farmland.
Today, the four corners of the intersection are filled with commercial development, including Union County's newest Target store. Pretty impressive and convenient for a village that has fewer than 5000 residents!
Neighborhood shopping includes a grocery store, restaurants, a real estate office, insurance office, video store, bank, gas station, and several pharmacies.
Wesley Chapel has an ongoing master planning process and is asking its residents to complete a survey regarding future development around the downtown. While the village now requires subdivisions to have half acre lots or larger, it is asking it citizens whether they would like subdivisions that preserve more open space by clustering homes on smaller lots in the interior. Another question deals with the village allowing different types of housing, such as townhomes and retirement homes, and whether higher density homes should be clustered around the village town center. Survey results should be published in October.
Want to help Wesley Chapel celebrate its birthday? Join the parade at 11:00am and the festival from 12pm to 4pm at the Target parking lot. The festival will have a bicycle rodeo, a teen driving experience, a bounce house, food, and music.
Visit the Wesley Chapel page at www.CarolinaSmallTownLiving.com for more information about the Village of Wesley Chapel.
Copyright 2008. Carol Fox. All rights reserved. "Happy Birthday, Wesley Chapel, NC!"
About the auther: Carol Fox of Allen Tate Realtors is a veteran real estate broker who has been selling the neighborhoods, rolling farmland and horse farms of Wesley Chapel for over twenty years.
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