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Planning Commission defers subdivision discussion

By JOHN THOMPSON
jthompson@TheCitizenNews.com

The Senoia Planning Commission decided Tuesday to wait another month to make a decision on the latest upscale subdivision in the city.

Neal Spratlin wants to build a 42-lot subdivision on 47 acres, just off Pylant Street at the city’s western border. The subdivision would feature 2,300 sq. ft. homes priced from the $220s to $250s. But because Pylant is already a dangerous street, Spratlin wants to route the entrance on Howard Road.

In addition to asking for a rezoning to R40 to R-40 Conservation, Spratlin is also asking the howard Road entrance be annexed into the city from Coweta County.

“We’d much prefer all the property be in the city, so we just have one development standard,” Spratlin said.

The conservation rezoning would allow the developer to build on third of an acre lots, instead of one acre lots in the R-40 category. Coweta County’s minimum lot size is 1.6 acres.

Spratlin said the rezoning would allow much of the greenspace on the property to remain, since the house would be clustered closer together.

The scenic property features lakes, which would be preserved, but one of the city’s older structures could be torn down.

“There’s a lot of different history attached to the rock building on the property,” said Planning Commission chairman Jim Preece.

Currently, the Boy Scouts use the building five nights a week for various activities and the building was built in 1937 by WPA labor, said resident Jack Humphrey.

But the overriding concern expressed by city planner Bill Johnston was the availability of sewer.

“We don’t have the knowledge yet that we will have enough sewer capacity for the property,” he said.

If sewer was unavailable, the developers could only develop the property as one-acre lots.

Resident Perry Benson, who heads up a group monitoring the city’s activities, wondered if the property could be developed as six or seven executive homesites.

But Spratlin shook his head and said he had not considered that proposal.

Johnston said a report on the sewage capacity should be available to the Planning Commission before their March 15 meeting so they could forward a recommendation to the City Council.