Residents of Pine Trail Road and Concordia Partners Inc. are back at City Hall looking for common ground on the future of the residential street's intersection with Ga. Highway 85.

The last time, eight months ago, city officials appeared ready to deny Concordia's development plan for a shopping center covering about 90,000 square feet, and developers withdrew the plan.

They returned last week, and will be back this coming Tuesday, with a plan for about 74,500 square feet anchored by Barnes & Noble and Linens & Things.

But access into the shopping center from Pine Trail Road continues to be a sticking point for residents and the city Planning Commission.

"All we're trying to do here is maintain our quality of life," said Pat King, who objected to Concordia's plan to cut a driveway on Pine Trail Road to serve a Chili's restaurant as part of the center.

The restaurant would be on an out-parcel on the southwest corner of the property, which is currently occupied by the Fayetteville Church of Christ. Development plans label the restaurant site an out-parcel, which can have a curb cut legally on a residential street, whereas the overall shopping center may not.

But Planning Commission members last week said they aren't buying the contention that the curb cut should be allowed, because the plan shows the Chili's parking lot open to traffic from the shopping center.

"The way it's designed makes it another access into the [commercial] subdivision" from Pine Trail, said commission member Kevin Bittinger.

It's more than a minor sticking point. Residents say traffic backs up on Pine Trail from the Office Depot on the south corner, and a trip into Fayetteville that once took five minutes now takes 15 or 20 minutes.

Addition of a curb cut that connects to the new shopping center would be disastrous, said resident Harold Moore. "We can't handle anymore traffic on that street," he said.

Moore pointed out that Pine Trail Road is the only way in and out of the neighborhood behind the proposed shopping center. "The first day of school at Office Depot... you don't want to be there," he added. Students park in the church parking lot and along both sides of Pine Trail Road to get their school supplies, he said.

Concordia spokesman Kent Rose said the company is prepared to make $500,000 worth of improvements to the intersection that he claims will eliminate the traffic problems.

Abdul Amir of LRE, a traffic engineering firm, presented plans to build a left turn lane to help move southbound Office Depot customers out of the intersection faster, and change the timing on the intersection's traffic light.

He said those changes would cancel out any negative impact on traffic from the shopping center.

Commission members said they are still inclined to require that traffic between Chili's and the rest of the center be blocked off before they'll allow the curb cut on Pine Trail Road.

They will look over data from Amir's traffic survey before taking up the development plan during their business meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall.

Also on the agenda Tuesday will be:

Alex Thompson's development plans for a condominium complex on Knight Way next to the Weatherly Walk Apartments, off Ga. Highway 54 east.

Thompson plans to build 68 fee simple condominiums instead of the 80 apartment units that would be allowed under the multifamily zoning district his nine-plus acres are in. City Council Monday approved a change in zoning ordinances that will allow the change.

Previous law required a maximum of 16 bedrooms in eight units per acre for multifamily zoning, but Thompson told councilmen recently that there is no market for one-bedroom condominiums, and a combination of two- and three-bedroom units would exceed the maximum.

The ordinance change will encourage condominiums instead of apartments, city officials say.

Revised development plans for Burch Office Park at Burch Road and Hwy. 54 west. The Georgia Department of Transportation's denial of a curb cut for a bank on the corner of the development makes this necessary, said developer Bob Rolader.

The revised plan calls for a secondary street within the office park so that bank customers don't all have to enter and exit on the residential Burch Road.

Plans for a new building in East Fayette Industrial Park on Robinson Drive. The building will be 75 feet square.

Development plans for a Valvoline oil change facility at 110 Hwy. 314.

A site plan and elevations for a Wachovia drive-up ATM at Fayette Pavilion. The ATM will be just off the Pavilion Parkway near Wal-Mart.

A request for variance to reduce the front setback for a home at 110 Oak Court. Jim Dutton Homes is asking that the house be allowed to be eight feet closer to the property line.