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Truck storage plan OK’d for furniture business By JOHN MUNFORD Haverty’s will get its truck storage as the Fayetteville City Council built in some flexibility in the development of the area. Officials of the furniture store, located at Ga. Highway 85 north and New Hope Road, have agreed to locate more plantings and trees in the area to screen the trucks from view of adjacent homes and the next-door Johnny Carino’s restaurant. If the landscaping is extensive enough, a proposed brick wall to screen some of the trucks may not be needed, said councilman Walt White. With that theory in mind, council gave the city’s planning staff the power to determine which is more appropriate at a later date. Rawson Haverty, vice president of the company, said none of the trucks parked overnight will run continuously, as previously alleged by a nearby resident. Some trucks are parked overnight so the furniture inside can be delivered the next day to local customers, Haverty said. The Fayetteville and Southlake Haverty’s stores are the only ones on the south metro side of Atlanta. The trucks are limited by city ordinance to being operated from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. In addition to adding more landscaping, Haverty’s will also be required to add sidewalks along Ga. Highway 85 and perhaps along New Hope Road.
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