By SAVANNAH ROGERS
Staff Writer

Tailgate parties at the Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater in Peachtree City may soon be allowed to include alcohol, if a request by the Development Authority is approved by City Council Thursday night.

Current rules prohibit concert-goers from drinking alcohol outside of the amphitheater.

The new rule would allow alcohol consumption in the amphitheater parking lot and the picnic tables at the amphitheater complex two hours before events. Police would have to approve the requests for each event and a security plan would be required.

The city development authority plans to bring a similar request before council later to allow tailgating at special tennis center events.

Also at the council meeting Thursday:

Council members will consider a resolution in support of the Controlled Growth Manifesto that Mayor Bob Lenox authored for the county's Fayette Unified Team to Use Resources Effectively committee. The committee will finalize the document at its quarterly meeting Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at the Peachtree Wyndham Conference Center.

Council will consider a Line Creek Collector Road development agreement. The city and Westside Village property owners have been negotiating who will pay for and build Line Creek Parkway. The city wants developers to build the road, then donate the road and right of way to the city, as other developers have done with other new roads.

Other agenda items include a revision to the buffer standards for major thoroughfares, a public hearing on the Huddleston Road Special Sewer District ordinance and intergovernmental agreement, and a public hearing on a variance request by the Santolinas to build a poolhouse/studio in their rear yard.

Appointments will also be made to the Commission on Children and Youth and the airport authority.

The council meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in City Hall council chambers.