Friday, January 18, 2002
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Friday, January 18, 2002 |
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Senoia's First Baptist get OK to move By JOHN
THOMPSON
Members of the First Baptist Church in Senoia will soon have a new sanctuary to call home. The Coweta County Commission gave unanimous approval Tuesday night of the church's request to build a 44,000 sq.ft sanctuary on a 19-acre site on Ga. Highway 85, just north of Senoia. As nearly 100 members watched in anticipation, the board gave its go ahead for placing the sanctuary in a rural reserve zoning classification. The site has more than 450 feet of frontage on the state highway and has Keg Creek as its rear property boundary. Since the creek is part of the property, the land falls in the Stream Corridor Protection District. The district is designed to prevent contamination of future water sources for the county. In order to build on the property, the church will have to comply with watershed protection standards such as not building within 150 feet of the creek. Other conditions the church will have to meet include: ·Getting approval from the DOT for access to the busy state highway. ·Use lighting that would not adversely affect any nearby residential property owners. ·Create a 20-feet vegetated buffer along the north and south sides of the property. ·Submit a soil analysis prepared by a geo-technical engineer.
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