Friday, November 1, 2002
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Friday, November 1, 2002 |
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On second look, small commercial rezoning in PTC gets commission nod By JOHN
MUNFORD The second time was the charm for a small commercial rezoning request on Ga. Highway 74 north near Wisdom Road to get approval from the Peachtree City Planning Commission. This time, the applicant agreed to restrict the potential use of one of the two buildings planned for the 2.35-acre site, which would be rezoned from agricultural reserve to limited use commercial. The Planning Commission voted 3-2 to recommend approval of the rezoning to the City Council, which can either approve or deny the request. Commissioners Wes Saunders, Dennis Payton and Bob Buckley voted in favor of recommending the rezoning to council while Robert Ames and Rich Schumacher voted against it. The property's land use plan designation is office-institutional. One of the buildings planned for the parcel will house a 10,000 sq. ft. showroom for Dalton West Carpets. The other building, at 9,000 sq. ft., will be restricted from becoming a gas station, package store, dine-in restaurant and self-storage facility, among other excluded uses. The site is located to the south of Fulton Realty and is adjacent to another parcel zoned agricultural reserve which is located at the corner of Hwy. 74 and Wisdom Road. The developer plans to install a 10-foot-wide landscape buffer and a six-foot-high privacy fence to separate the buildings from the adjacent Fairfield subdivision. The plan also calls for an access road to the rear of the property which would link up with a similar road that already exists behind the businesses to the north of the property. In other business, the commission approved a plan to relocate 42 townhome units at the Centennial subdivision off MacDuff Parkway. The townhomes were originally located to the east of the parkway at the southern end of the parcel, but they were moved further north and replaced by 15 lots. The changes will not increase the total number of homes on the site, which was capped at 350 by the city council when it approved a rezoning for the property. The commission also approved a landscape plan for the Bruster's Ice Cream that is currently under construction at Lexington Circle.
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