BY KAY S. PEDROTTI
Staff Writer

The Peachtree City Planning Commission and Fayette County Board of Education are still unable to resolve their engineering differences over rearranging traffic at Booth Middle School, but they're trying.

At Monday's planning commission meeting, Wes Saunders and Geraldine Holt were asked to meet with board officials and city staff to try to come to an agreement. Development director Jim Williams said that "there was some confusion" over the intent of the commission at the Aug. 10 meeting, when a driveway rearrangement for the school was discussed.

Apparently, Williams said, board facilities director Mike Satterfield had come away from the meeting thinking that the commission had agreed to leaving the existing driveway alone, construction of a 20-foot barrier south of the present drive, and then building a 28-foot bus drive south of the barrier. When asked, the planning commissioners said they had intended to convey that the barrier begin on the southernmost side of the present drive, leaving two lanes for in-and-out vehicle traffic, and that the bus drive then be built to the south. Bringing the bus drive nearer the present exit would minimize any increase in the median break along Peachtree Parkway, commission chairman Bill Foley said.

Satterfield said after the Aug. 10 meeting that the plan conveyed to him and the school board engineer after the Aug. 10 meeting was not acceptable to the engineer. Without further agreements, he said, the buses would have to use the existing drive along with personal vehicles, though part of the intent of reconstruction around Booth was to separate the two types of traffic.

Saunders said "if you'd been there this morning (opening day of school), you would have seen the confusion" at the entrance-exit road. He said that he and Holt are looking forward to resolving the dilemma as soon as possible.