Chin Page Road Apartments Get Commission Nod

Twenty-four acres that used to include a Goodwill community garden on Chin Page Road took a step closer to becoming a new apartment complex on Tuesday.

The Durham Planning Commission voted unanimously to send the proposal from Griffith Capital LLC forward to the City Council with a favorable recommendation.

The Chin Page Road Apartments project would add 360 units to an area largely surrounded by residential and light industrial - including the 340,000-square-foot Wolfspeed facility that's expected to be vacated so the company can relocate to Chatham County.

Three percent of the apartments would be designated as affordable housing. The complex would include a 10-foot-wide concrete shared path and a potential greenway connection. The developer also committed to donating $65,000 to Durham Public Schools.

The developer held two neighborhood meetings about the project, but no one attended and no one added comments to the Planning Department's Rezoning Explorer. No opponents attended the Tuesday meeting to speak against the project.

No date has been set for the City Council public hearing yet.

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