By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com

The appeal on the Peachtree City Planning Commission’s denial of the concept site plan for the proposed Wal-Mart Superstore has been tabled.

City Council was expected to act on the appeal at its meeting last week, but RAM Development requested a two-week delay. City Attorney Rick Lindsey said the company needed time for its attorneys and traffic engineers to meet with him and the city’s traffic engineers.

Lindsey said the attorneys need to try and “work out several legal issues concerning this matter.”

The Planning Commission has denied the store’s concept site plan based on the city’s assertion that the store would not meet the city’s traffic ordinance. The city’s traffic engineers have estimated that the store would create so much traffic that it would make automobile congestion in the area significantly worse.

Once Ga. Highway 54 is widened to four lanes, the Wal-Mart would meet the traffic ordinance requirements, the traffic consultants concluded.

Lindsey agreed that he could not advise the city of its legal position until the meeting could take place.