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RALEIGH -- Wake County Commissioners voted Tuesday to spend $4.3 million to buy land in Rolesville for the new Forest Ridge High School.

That's despite the fact the county has already spent $8.7 million on another piece of land and design plans to build the same school on Forestville Road in northeast Raleigh.

Two years ago, Wake County bought land along Forestville Road in to build H6, a new high school, now named Forest Ridge High School.

Since then, people living in the area have fought against the site, saying it will create major traffic problems and would cost too much money to build the school on the rough and rocky piece of land.

“[The plans] were dumping 500 to 1,000 cars a day on our neighborhood,” said Sherman Biggerstaff who lives in the Chesterfield neighborhood.

Resident Carolyn Poole told county commissioners that the community outrage they're hearing now will become road rage later.

The new Wake County School Board has already decided to abandon the original plans.

“The Wake County Public School System will not build H6 on the Forestville Road site,” Board Chairman Ron Margiotta told commissioners.

But Tuesday, county commissioners agreed with the new school board and voted to buy another piece of land in Rolesville for the new high school.

“Do I like seeing the money spent on H6,” asked Wake County Commissioner Paul Coble. “No. But I think we can regain a lot of it, both in transference of work that's been done and also in selling [the Forestville Road land].”

Construction on the new Rolesville site is expected to cost about $5 million less than the Forestville Road site. However, the county has already spent more than that amount on the first site.

School leaders say with commissioners agreeing now to buy the land for the new site, Forest Ridge High School could be built and ready to open in 2013.