Friday, October 13, 2000
Friday, October 13, 2000 |
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Council, Planning Commission oppose south retail center By JOHN
MUNFORD Both the Peachtree City Council and the Peachtree City Planning Commission are opposing an 80-acre commercial development that has been proposed for Ga. Highway 74 south adjacent to the city limits. Starr's Mill LLC wants to build a shopping center and offices on the property, which would be located across from Wilshire Pavilion, another retail center that will contain a Publix grocery store. The company wants the change the zoning of the land from the current agricultural-residential designation to a combination of community commercial and office institutional. The Fayette County Planning Commission recommended that the rezoning be denied, but the County Commission tabled it since the plan was changed when a church location was deleted from the original drawings. That land will be included in the land the company wants to donate for open space. The rezoning request will be taken up again by the county Planning Commission before the County Commission acts on it again. Starr's Mill LLC originally proposed a 55,000-square-foot grocery store along with 117,000 square feet of other shops and restaurants on 26 of the 80 acres.The rest of the land would be used for parking, buffers and a drain field for a septic system to serve the project, since it won't likely be hooked up to the city's sewer system. The proposal includes donation of land for soccer fields to be used by the county. Representatives of Starr's Mill have expressed concerns about developing the land for residential use, citing that it would overburden the school system. The Peachtree City Planning Commission voted at its meeting Monday to draft a letter to the Fayette County Commission urging that they deny the rezoning. Several planning commission members and city council members also plan to attend the Nov. 2 county commission meeting to oppose the project. Jim Williams, Peachtree City's director of developmental services, told the city planning commission that the area can't support the Wilshire Pavilion development across the road in the city limits and Starr's Mill's proposed development.
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