Friday, June 8, 2001
Friday, June 8, 2001 |
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PTC Planning Commission offers mixed bag on four different rezoning requests By JOHN
MUNFORD
Only one of four rezoning proposals passed the muster of the Peachtree City Planning Commission at its regular meeting Monday night. The commission voted to recommend that the City Council approve the rezoning of a 1.99-acre tract off Hwy. 74 near the southern entrance to Kedron Drive from Agriculture-Reserve to Office-Institutional. Other properties bordering the property are also zoned OI, and the property will be sold so it can be combined with another tract of OI land. The commission voted to recommend denial of another rezoning, tabled a third rezoning matter and took no action on a fourth rezoning after a motion to recommend approval failed with only one positive vote. The City Council makes the final decision on all rezoning requests before the city. The Planning Commission only recommends whether to approve or deny each request. Although the commission recommended denying the rezoning of an estate-residential lot in the Shakerag Plantation subdivision, the homeowner will likely still be able to get the result sought by the rezoning. Thomas Haynes said he wanted to build a second house on the 3.82-acre property so his son could live there and take care of himself and his wife. Zoning regulations will allow the house to be built as a guest house without a rezoning since the lot is large enough. Several neighbors protested the rezoning petition but supported the construction of the house. The commission also tabled a request for rezoning a limited use commercial property off Ga. Highway 74 in the Whitlock Place subdivision to general commercial. The owner was seeking the change so the main parcel, currently an art gallery, could be changed into a restaurant. No official action was recorded, however, on a request from Hyland Developers for a R-22 rezoning on property currently designated R-43. The developer wants the rezoning so six homes can be built on the 4.56-acre tract on Astoria Lane, instead of the original four homes proposed when the tract was part of Hyland's plans for the Kedron Hills subdivision. Hyland withdrew the tract from the original plan to skirt around a state guideline that any development within 500 feet of a sewer line is required to be hooked up to the sewer system. The developer wanted the entire subdivision served by septic tanks since sewering the area would cost more than normal. The proposed six homes would be served by the sewer system, according to Hyland's zoning application. The Only one vote was taken on the rezoning, resulting in one vote for recommending approval to council, three votes against and one abstention. Typically, the commission votes until a motion passes but in this case they were cleared to proceed with the agenda without acting further on the matter.
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