By DAVE HAMRICK
dhamrick@thecitizennews.

You'll have to slow down a little more on three Fayetteville streets if City Council approves proposed speed limit changes Monday.

Council will discuss the changes tonight in its regular work session. Both meetings are at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

Prompted by the state Department of Transportation, council will consider changing the speed limit:

From 55 to 45 on Ga. Highway 85 from the south city limits to a point 300 feet south of Beauregard Boulevard;

From 55 to 45 on Jimmy Mayfield Boulevard from Ga. Highway 92 to South Jeff Davis Road;

From 40 to 35 on Lee Street from Ga. Highway 85 to Jimmy Mayfield Boulevard.

Council also will consider sending a list of 15 local streets to the DOT for inclusion in the state's repaving program.

The list will be in order of priority, and the state is not guaranteeing that all the roads will be repaved.

According to a letter from DOT Commissioner Wayne Shackelford, need for the state repaving funds have outstripped he department's revenue for calendar year 2000.

Council also will consider a contract with Carter Watkins Associates Architects for “stabilization” of the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House.

The architects would prepare construction documents and design the project, which would include architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical and plumbing work to restore the original eight rooms of the historic house and add accessible rest rooms. The firm also would oversee the construction work.

Other items on Monday's agenda:

Jimmy and Dell Walker's request for a change in zoning from R-30, a subdivision category, to O&I (office and institutional) for a house at 555 Grady avenue, across from Bradford Square office complex. The city's planning staff recommended denial of the request, saying it constituted spot zoning, but the Planning Commission is recommending approval.

Minor changes in the city's erosion control ordinance recommended by the state Environmental Protection Division.

Amendments to the city sign ordinance (see related story).

” A rezoning request from Argonne Properties for 110 acres at Ga. Highway 54 and Tiger Trail (see related story).

Presentation of a proclamation honoring Fayette Middle School students who took part in a recent gift of trees to the nation of France to replace trees that were lost in a hurricane