Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Board members said no to two very different kinds of developers last week, wrestled with the appropriateness of several variance requests and tabled a big decision on changing the city's land use plan.

The group denied requests from P.K. Dixon to annex and rezone property on Burch Road and First Manassas Mile for a residential subdivision.

Area residents had objected to Dixon's plans to provide an emergency services entrance through a cul-de-sac.

Planners worried that even with the emergency entrance, fire trucks and ambulances faced a response time of more than 12 minutes in some places, much greater than the Fayetteville standard of five minutes.

"It's too far away," board member Allan Feldman said. "At this time there are no public facilities to properly serve it."

The board voted 3-1 against the annexing and rezoning. Segis Lipscomb voted for it.

Dixon currently has a lawsuit pending against the city to determine access to his property through the cul-de-sac.

At the other end of Burch Road, the board approved developer Bob Rolader's plans for a dentist office fronting Ga. Highway 54.

Pavilion developer Stan Thomas also faces road woes, this one an additional access required by the city for 1344 Hwy. 85 North, between Roberd's and Rent-All.

Neither Thomas nor the planning board want the road, but the city council has required an added entrance onto Hwy. 85, Thomas said. The problem is that existing buffer rules make the road unbuildable without a variance, which Thomas sought last week.

"If the city is requiring this road, then the city ought to furnish the land for it," Thomas said.

"I'd like to see this road go away," Chairman Bill Talley said. "Put the onus back on those who want it. I don't want a street there."

With Thomas's tacit approval, the board voted to deny the variance request, in effect vetoing the road.

The group approved a setback variance to allow Prince of Peace Lutheran Church on Ga. Highway 314 to expand the building closer to a residential area. Two neighbors said they had no objections to the planned expansion, which Senior Pastor Justin Kollmeyer said would allow the church to double the number of children served by the ministry.