The Fayette Citizen-News Page
Wednesday, December 2, 1998
County eyes subdivision expansion, Pine Trail Rd.

By DAVE HAMRICK
Staff Writer

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Rezoning for a 20-home subdivision on Antebellum Way off S. Jeff Davis Drive and new regulations for communications towers will top the agenda as the Fayette County Planning Commission meets tomorrow.

Commissioners will meet at 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex.

Frank Love is seeking a change in zoning category from A-R (agricultural-residential) to R-45, a category that allows single family homes on minimum one-acre lots, for 33.89 acres. The panel will make its recommendation and the request will be heard by the county Board of Commissioners Dec. 10.

Also to be passed on to the commissioners Dec. 10 will be Love's request to revise the plat for Jeff Davis Plantation III to extend a cul-de-sac at the end of Antebellum Way, to provide access to the new subdivision.

Also, the Planning Commission will decide whether to recommend a change in classification for Pine Trail Road.

Residents of the Pine Trail Road area have expressed concern that the county's designation of the road as a collector road will encourage commercial development, but commission members indicated during a recent workshop that no change is necessary.

The planning panel also will vote on its standards for telecommunications antennas and towers and send the document on to the County Commission for action Dec. 10. The standards have been hammered out over the last three months as members of the Planning Commission worked to establish rules that would allow communications companies to provide cellular phone, paging and other services without unduly affecting Fayette's residential areas.

As long as towers are placed within 500 feet of the county's major thoroughfares and are no taller than 180 feet, the new rules will allow them to be approved by staff members with no requirement for public hearings.

Seven items on tomorrow's agenda will not be passed on to the county commissioners until January, to be heard at the group's Jan. 14 meeting:

A request from Jack Miller, R.L. Miller and Harold Allen to rezone 3.33 acres on Sumner Road from R-40 (single family residential) to O-I to develop an office park.

Brian Jackson's request to rezone .02 acres from C-H (commercial-highway) to O-I (office-institutional) and add them to an office park he is developing at Ga. Highway 54 and Corinth Road.

Richard Junkins' request to rezone five acres from A-R to R-70, a category allowing lots as small as two acres. Junkins hopes to develop two homes on the Antioch Road property.

A revised final plat for Gantt Acres, phase one, affecting the same property. Junkins wants to subdivide lot 21 into two lots.

C. R. Ivey's request for rezoning of 5.03 acres from R-70 to A-R for a telecommunications facility. The property fronts on Sandy Creek Road.

A revised final plat for Bridger Point, lot 18, adding 1.43 acres to the lot, bringing its total size to 5.88 acres.

A revised final plat for lot one in phase one of Cynthia Gaskins subdivision and Warren Lake subdivision. Owners Cynthia Gaskins and Ethyl Banks want to remove one-tenth of an acre from Cynthia Gaskins lot one and add it to Warren Lake lot 20, and to remove a tenth of an acre from Warren Lake lot 20 and add it to Gaskins lot one to make room for swimming pools and septic lines.

The group also will consider a preliminary plat for Terry Office Park, a six-office development on Ga. Highway 54 west owned by Genevieve Smith. That item will not be passed on to the County Commission. The Planning Commission's decision is final.


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