Sunday, June 30, 2002
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Sunday, June 30, 2002 |
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Southside plan tabled again By MONROE
ROARK
It will be at least another month before the first step of the proposed Fayetteville southside master plan is recommended for approval by the city's Planning and Zoning Commission. The annexation and rezoning now before the commission was tabled at Tuesday night's regular monthly meeting so that staff can review the required Planned Community District documents submitted recently, and in hopes that a reply from the Atlanta Regional Commission concerning the city's amended future land use map is forthcoming. The waiting period for ARC review is at least 60 days, planning director Jahnee Prince told the commissioners, and it has been nearly that long since the new map was submitted. "We expect to hear from them any day," she said. Several properties in the area, totalling 53.17 acres, are included in the plan, which is the first proposal officially submitted to the city for the area. This tract, near the northeast corner of Ga. Highways 85 and 92, has been named Summit Point and is proposed as a mixed-use community with office, retail and residential uses a "live-work-shop neighborhood," as city officials put it. To that end, the developers have applied for a Planned Community District zoning. The commercial portion of the development is to be along Hwy. 85, with the major entrance lining up with the entrance to Fayetteville Towne Center across the highway. Residential units would be more toward the interior. The overall southside master plan consists of about 400 acres and stretches east to Jeff Davis Road, with a proposed connector road beginning at Jimmie Mayfield Drive. The project has already been more than a year in the planning stages since it was first suggested to the city, and it is expected to be 5-10 years before completion if it is developed as proposed. The proposed Summit Point development is anchored by a 116,000-square-foot shopping center with a 53,000-square-foot Publix grocery store. According to city officials, PCD zoning does not allow commercial uses greater than 20,000 square feet, and deviations must be approved by the City Council and be user-specific. Along with the center and seven commercial outparcels, the plan calls for three office building totalling about 20,000 square feet, and 69 homes on 24 acres with a 3.2-acre park, nature trails, a playground and a clubhouse. About 10.95 acres of open space is included in the plan. Architectural guidelines would be consistent throughout the community, according to a representative of the developer, Concordia Properties. If approved, Summit Point would be built in three phases: the shopping center, taking about one year to complete; the residential section, over two years; and the office and outparcel section, taking up to five years, depending upon the market. While the applicants presented a possible design package for the residential portion, some commissioners expressed concerns about the proposed lot sizes of 60 by 120 feet. After the vote was taken to table the plan, a representative of Concordia asked that his group be given some specific written guidelines as to the reasons for tabling so that they would know how to proceed. He also expressed some displeasure at yet another delay, saying that city staff should share some of the blame for not reviewing the documents submitted nearly a week before. Concordia representatives have been very prompt to respond to every direction given by the city so far, he said.
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