Friday, December 1, 2000
Friday, December 1, 2000 |
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PTC Planning Commission approves plans for church expansion, new business facility
By JOHN
MUNFORD
A conceptual site plan for a two-phase expansion of Holy Trinity Catholic Church was unanimously approved by the Peachtree City Planning Commission at its regular meeting Monday night. The commission also approved a conceptual site plan for Rinnai, a Japanese company that plans to import gas appliances and distribute them from a local warehouse. The Holy Trinity plan calls for the construction of a 16,700-square-foot religious education building and a new 7,500-square-foot rectory. A new driveway will also be built connecting the church campus to an adjacent office building it plans to buy. The new rectory, driveway and a 1,000-square-foot expansion of the current rectory would take place soon while the educational building would possibly be built in the next three to five years, said Don Cobb of Cobb and Associates Architects. Several planning commissioners said they liked the plan since it would alleviate traffic on Walt Banks Road. Vehicles would be able to use the new driveway to get to Prime Point for access to Ga. Highway 54. The proposed Rinnai facility will be located on International Drive adjacent to a portion of the Planterra Ridge golf course. The building will include 6,000 square feet of office space and 19,200 square feet of warehouse space with room to expand the warehouse in the future if necessary. City Planner David Rast said the developers would need to work with city staff to resolve several more issues about the concept plan. One of those issues is the placement of the employee drive, which the city contends should be closer to the warehouse to preserve more of the natural vegetation that exists on the site. The company plans to sell products such as space heaters, room heaters and water heaters that run on both natural and propane gas, a spokesman told the planning commission. The planning commission also approved landscape plans for Merrick Trace (Summit) Apartments on MacDuff Parkway, the Black Oak Properties office building off south Peachtree Parkway near Robinson Road and the new Peachtree City Police Department Headquarters on Hwy. 74 South.
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