Wednesday, November 15, 2000
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Wednesday, November 15, 2000 |
| Tyrone, PTC councils
meet, share ideas
By JOHN
MUNFORD
A joint meeting of the Tyrone and Peachtree City councils Thursday helped reveal plenty of common ground where the two municipalities can help each other. For instance, mayors Bob Lenox and Sheryl Lee will work together to meet with Fairburn's mayor on the future growth of that community and lobby for transportation needs with such agencies as the Atlanta Regional Commission. "We all realize that South Fulton is going to explode once they get a handle on their education system," said Peachtree City Councilman Robert Brooks. Also, the Tyrone and Peachtree City planning commissions will work together on a future project for Braelinn Baptist Church, which plans to build a worship campus on a 90-acre tract which rests partially in both jurisdictions. It was suggested that the site could be served by Peachtree City's sewer system for environmental purposes. "We don't want to see that on a septic system," said Tyrone Councilman Paul Letourneau. Most of the hour-long meeting was devoted to the sharing of information relating to development. Tyrone learned about Peachtree City's plans to develop what property is left on the west side. But the majority of the discussion was in Tyrone's court as the council and Town Manager Barry Amos presented several items, including their plans to control development along Ga. Highway 74 and purchase sewer access from Fairburn. The sewer deal doesn't mean that development will "bust open" along Hwy. 74, said Tyrone Councilman Ronnie Cameron. Amos explained that the city only secured the sewer service for three major developments: a 292-home subdivision for John Wieland Homes, an office park and possibly Sandy Creek High School if that's necessary in the future. The city decided to link up with Fairburn's sewer after it lost a lawsuit with John Wieland Homes that allowed the developer to build a separate wastewater treatment system just for that subdivision, Amos said. Under that proposal, the homeowners association would be responsible for funding the operation and maintenance of that system. But council worried that the system might break down in the future, and John Wieland Homes eventually agreed to have the project tied in to Fairburn's sewer system, which is in the planning stages, Cameron said. The developers are paying the entire cost of bringing the sewer service from Fairburn to Tyrone, Amos added. The city has only contracted for a capacity of 250,000 gallons per day, he said. "We are just a customer of Fairburn," Amos said. Lenox said that in the future Peachtree City might find itself with more sewer capacity than it needs, and then it's possible that its sewer services could be offered to Tyrone if necessary. As for the potential development along the Hwy. 74 corridor, Tyrone has a strict set of guidelines specifically in place for that area. The guidelines call for 60-foot landscaped buffers from the highway's right-of-way and all outside finish construction to be at least 80 percent brick veneer or glass. "I don't want to see a lot of subdivisions along the highway," Letourneau said. The remaining undeveloped land on Hwy. 74 North in Peachtree City will likely be changed from industrial zoning to office-institutional, said Jim Williams, the city's director of developmental services. The city will also be looking to put a fire station up there to serve the western area of the city, Williams added.
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