The Fayette Citizen-News Page
Friday, September 25, 1998
Planners to wade into Flat Creek wetlands controversy

By KAY S. PEDROTTI
Staff Writer

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A bid for rezoning connected with a lawsuit, a quagmire of a question on wetlands and a dilemma about cars and school buses will have the Peachtree City Planning Commission busy next Monday night.

A public hearing is set for discussing apartment developer Eric Edee's bid to have all of his nearly-22 acres at Ga. Highway 74 and Kedron Drive zoned for apartment buildings. More than 17 acres of the property carries that zoning, but the developer has sought to rezone a four-acre agricultural tract in the middle of the site. Edee sued the city over its apartment moratorium (see separate story).

Another postponed discussion, on a proposed wetlands mitigation plan at Flat Creek Golf Course, will be heard at the 7 p.m. meeting at City Hall. Dennis Chase, retired biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, says he plans to question the mitigation plan, which has been the subject of controversy with the golf course's neighboring homeowners.

Chase says the mitigation plan appears to be "unsatisfactory" in some ways, which he will outline in a presentation to the planning commission.

The golf course owners, Patten Seed Co., chose the Flat Creek areas to "mitigate," or re-create, wetlands damaged when the company added on to the Canongate Golf Course near Palmetto.

The commission also will consider a redrawn conceptual site plan for separating bus and car traffic at Booth Middle School. The commission, the Fayette Board of Education and the engineers for both groups were unable to reach an agreement in August about where a separate travel lane for buses should be placed at the school entrance.

Other agenda items include a landscape plans for the Peachtree City Tennis Center expansion on Planterra Way, GymXpress at Ga. Highway 74 and Aberdeen Parkway and the FAA facility on Hwy. 74; and a conceptual site plan for the Village Package Store on Crosstown Court.


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