Wednesday, April 30, 2003
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Wednesday, April 30, 2003 |
Fville commission OK's Southside commercial planBy JOHN
MUNFORD
Plans for a large commercial development on recently annexed land in south Fayetteville were approved by the city's Planning and Zoning Commission at its regular meeting last Tuesday. The plan for the 28-acre "Summit Point" site encompasses 116,000 square feet of retail space not including seven outparcels which would be located off Ga. Highways 85 and 92. Ten acres of the tract will be dedicated as a conservation area, according to a representative for Concordia Properties. The developer is also required to develop 10 percent of the space for office use, according to city documents. At the meeting, the commission was presented with the lighting plan for the property, which was one of the few outstanding issues unresolved since the matter was discussed two weeks before at the commission's monthly workshop meeting. The rezoning petitions for the property were controversial at first since the southernmost portion of the rezoned tracts on the southside but against residential subdivisions in unincorporated Fayette County. Residents initially complained about an increase of traffic and crime that commercial development would bring to the area. At the time, the City Council put its decision on hold so citizens could be allowed input on a task force that was formed to study the various development issues.
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