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Retail complex
eyed for PTC's south side
By DAVE HAMRICK
dhamrick@thecitizennews.com
A public hearing is set for Thursday on a Macon company's rezoning request
to allow a retail center with offices, a large church and a soccer complex
on 80 acres just south of Peachtree City.
The Fayette County Planning Commission will hear the request at 7 p.m.
at the County Administrative Complex, and its recommendation is scheduled
to be heard by the County Commission at 7 p.m. Sept. 28.
The site for the proposed "Plantation Centre at Starr's Mill"
on Ga. Highway 74 south is next to Meade Recreation Park, across the highway
from the three-school campus of Starr's Mill High School, Rising Starr
Middle School and Peeples Elementary School.
Starr's Mill LLC of Macon is requesting that the land's zoning category
be changed to community commercial from its current agricultural-residential.
Although the county's land use plan calls for agricultural and residential
uses in the area, Jim Wells, managing partner for Starr's Mill LLC, told
The Citizen he thinks the area has changed and that plan is no longer
practical.
The company's plan calls for 188,000 square feet of offices and stores,
including a 55,000-sq. ft. grocery store. Wells said several grocery chains
are interested.
Also on the Planning Commission agenda Thursday will be:
Sarah Banister's request for zoning that would allow 31 homes on 42.3
acres on New Hope Road. Integrated Science and Engineering hopes to develop
the property, and is seeking a change from the current category, A-R (agricultural-residential),
which requires a minimum of five-acre lots, to R-50, which requires a
minimum of one-acre lots and a minimum of 2,100 square feet per home.
Curtis Burton's request for a change from A-R to R-45, which allows a
minimum 1,800-sq. ft. home on one-acre lots, for 54.96 acres on Ga. Highway
279. Burton proposes to build 36 homes on the land.
A request from W.R. Clifton and D.B. Scroggins Jr. to rezone an acre on
Hewell Road from A-R to R-45 for a single home.
George and Brian Curreri and Beverly Koumoulas' request to rezone 1.89
acres on Ga. Highway 54 west at Brittany Way from R-40 (one-acre residential)
to O-I (office-institutional) for a medical/office building. The commission
also would have to act on the owners' request to remove the property from
the Fayette Villa subdivision so it can be used for the office building.
Two changes in the county's development regulations (see related story).
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