Friday, June 22, 2001

Landmark pulls rezoning request

Early Wednesday morning, Landmark Christian School officials decided not to have their zoning application heard by the Tyrone Town Council.

Landmark officials could not be reached for comment and it's not known whether the school plans to resubmit the application or drop plans for a school in Tyrone.

Late last month, more than 200 people packed Town Hall and saw the Planning Commission vote to recommend denial of Landmark's request to rezone a 95-acre tract at Farr Road from residential to office institutional to allow the school to move there.

Landmark's Steve Fincher presented the school's case by telling the Planning Commission that Landmark had conducted three public meetings with residents near the property.

Fincher said Landmark's development schedule is for 15 years, with preschool and elementary grades being the primary focus of the initial building program.

Eventually, the school would have preschool through high school with an estimated 1,100 students at the Tyrone campus.

But Eric Allen, who represented disgruntled homeowners, told the Planning Commission that Landmark's campus should be closer to Tyrone's town center and not placed in the middle of a residential area.

"This doesn't comply with the regional transportation plan," he said.

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