| PTC council to reconsider
Katz rezoning application
By JOHN
MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizenNews.com
The rezoning request for the
Katz property will be considered by the Peachtree City Council at its
meeting Wednesday night.
John Wieland Homes has that the zoning category of the 101-acre tract
be changed to general residential from general industrial in anticipation
of locating 300 homes there. The Planning Commission has recommended to
council that the rezoning be denied, largely based on the effects the
development would have on the school system.
City staff had recommended to the Planning Commission that the rezoning
be approved with 10 different conditions. One of those conditions would
have provided a 20-acre school site to the Board of Education on property
next door that's outside the city limits.
Dan Fields of John Wieland Homes told the Planning Commission that the
subdivision would be
marketed to empty nesters, young professionals and some families with
a starting price range around $200,000 per unit. Fields also said the
proposed density of three units per acre is consistent with the city's
land use plan.
One of the conditions requested by city staff included capping the number
of homes that could be built on the property in the city and an additional
80-acre tract that lies just outside the city limits. That would keep
the overall limit at 350 homes.
The city also wants to require a traffic study and a sound and vibration
study, with extra measures taken to reduce the sound and vibration coming
from the railroad tracks that border the Katz property to the east.
The commission also inserted another condition that required banks to
be built at the railroad tracks to contain a potential derailment.
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