Friday, November 29, 2002
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Friday, November 29, 2002 |
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PTC planning commission pares down rezoning recommendations to 25 parcels By JOHN
MUNFORD The Peachtree City Planning Commission has recommended that 25 properties be rezoned to fall in line with the latest update to the city's land use plan ... and coincide with the current use of those properties. The rezonings will not become official until they are adopted by the Peachtree City City Council at a future meeting. Most were for city owned property such as parks which would be rezoned to open space from their current zoning designations. The commission elected to cut 10 proposed rezonings from the original list of 35 it was to consider. On all but two of those parcels, the property owner objected to the rezoning. At Monday's commission meeting, City Planner David Rast said some of the objections were for properties currently zoned general commercial which would have been rezoned to limited use commercial. Rast said the property owners complained they had purchased the land at general commercial prices and they didn't want to reduce the value of their property. Those properties included three office buildings in the Westpark area including the 800 Commerce Drive building, the 200 Commerce Drive building and the Piedmont Medical Office building. Also scrapped was a plan to rezone the Aberdeen Woods Conference Center on Aberdeen Parkway from general commercial to limited use commercial and several day care centers to limited use commercial from their current residential zonings. The commission did, however, recommend approval of a limited use commercial rezoning for the Planterra Ridge Golf Course clubhouse which is currently zoned general industrial. Liza Schroder said she opposed the rezoning of the Loghouse Park on Cabin Gate to open space because the homeowner's association had questions on how the rezoning would affect its taxes. The association owns the parcel, which is currently zoned residential and contains a log house with a community meeting room and two tennis courts. Schroder pointed out that the park is not owned by the city and can only be used by residents of the Rockspray subdivision. Commission Chairman Robert Ames asked if the association would be willing to consider a change to the zoning so the property would be better protected in the future. Schroder said she thought so. "We don't want it to become residential," Schroder said. The commission eventually decided to withdraw that rezoning from its list of recommendations to council. Among the city-owned properties the commission proposes rezoning to open space are the South 74 baseball and soccer complex, the Meade Field softball complex, Big Pine Park at Boxwood Court and Sweetgum Road, Smokerise Park at Smokerise Trace and Smokerise Point, Stoneacre Park off Stoneacre Curve and Ardenlee Park off Ardenlee Parkway. Other city-owned property that would be rezoned open space includes the Satterthwaite and Weber fire stations.
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