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PTC may enact waiting period for shunned annexations

By JOHN MUNFORD
jmunford@TheCitizen.com

A six-month “cooling off” period is proposed for all annexation requests that are turned down by the Peachtree City Council.

Council will consider an ordinance amendment enacting that time frame at its regular meeting Thursday night at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

The city also uses a six-month waiting period for rezoning applications that have been denied by council, which prevents staff from becoming overburdened with annexation requests.

Council will also consider a new requirement for developers to conduct a tree survey for all vegetation 2 inches in caliper and larger. The survey would identify the types, size and location of all significant vegetation within the parcel’s buffer areas, according to a memo to council from City Planner David Rast.

The tree survey would help avoid situations such as a few in the past where developers have removed vegetation from the areas without city approval, Rast said. Also, the city requires replacement of dead vegetation, and the tree survey will assist with that also, Rast noted.

In other business, council is expected to consider rezoning a 8.451-acre tract from agricultural reserve to limited use residential for a 32-home single family cluster subdivision.

The planning commission and city staff have recommended approval for the rezoning.

The property is bordered to the south by a lot zoned limited industrial and to the north by a 6.2 acre tract which is also zoned AR. To the east is the Ardenlee subdivision, which was zoned GR-4, allowing four units per acre. All three tracts have land use plan designations for single family cluster development, Rast noted. To the west of the property is Old Senoia Road and the CSX railroad.

The lots would be approximately 5,500 square feet in size with larger buffers around the perimeter of the site. Also, developer Chadwick Homes has agreed to build a tot lot playground on a vacant parcel in the Ardenlee subdivision.

The entrance to the home will be off Old Senoia Road.

Council is also slated to consider extending the moratorium on large commercial “Big Box” stores for another 60 days while a consultant finishes work on the project and staff prepares a new ordinance. The moratorium, enacted in March, forbids the issuance of building permits or the receipt of site plans for commercial buildings larger than 32,000 square feet.

The moratorium does not apply to the Target store planned for the Kedron Village shopping center because its plans were approved prior to the moratorium being enacted.

The matter may be discussed at an upcoming work session between council and the city’s planning commission.