Friday, June 8, 2001
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Friday, June 8, 2001 |
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Megasite plan withdrawn By JOHN
THOMPSON
The public hearing on a project that could have impacted the entire south side has been postponed. Coweta County officials learned late Tuesday that the rezoning application for a 1,032-acre site near Interstate 85 was withdrawn by the applicant. In a one-pragraph letter to the county, attorney John Stuckey said he was voluntarily pulling the application for heavy industrial use at the site. For months, rumors have flown through Coweta that an automobile maker, perhaps Volkswagen, wanted to build an assembly plant at the site near Moreland. In the application packet for rezoning, Rick Lindsey, acting as attorney for the Camp family, who owns the property, said the site would be the location of a prominent international company's manufacturing plant. The site included two 250-acre sites that each feature a 2.2-million-sq. ft. manufacturing facility. Also planned for the site were an interior loop road, a 40-acre lake and open wooded space. The application stated that 3,000 jobs would be created and construction costs would be $500-700 million. Coweta County could be expected to reap between $5 million and $7 million in property taxes each year. In his initial take on the project, planning director Robert Tolleson suggested the county deny the project. Tolleson said the future land use map calls for the site to be light industrial and said the site also is the location of natural resources important to the community. Public information officer Tom Corker said the applicant did not give any reason for pulling the application, or when it might be referred back to the commission.
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