A full plate of controversy awaits Fayetteville City Council as the group sits down for its first meeting of 1999 Monday night.

A 22-item agenda includes two appeals from developers whose plans were denied by the Planning Commission, including the Pine Trail Road shopping center debate that has raged through most of 1998.

Seven rezoning requests also are on the agenda.

Concordia Partners Inc. will ask City Council to reverse the Planning Commission's denial of its development plans for a shopping center, anchored by Linens & Things and Barnes & Noble at the corner of Pine Trail Road and Ga. Highway 85.

Residents have strongly opposed the firm's plan to cut an entrance into the center from Pine Trail, a residential street. Company representative Kent Rose has come back to the planning panel numerous times with offers to upgrade the intersection and make other improvements, but insists that the Pine Trail entrance is vital to the center.

The firm has offered to spend about $500,000 adding a left turn lane to Pine Trail to move traffic off the street and onto Hwy. 85 south more rapidly, and also realigning the intersection to reduce the possibility of accidents. In its latest proposal, Concordia has teamed up with Piedmont Properties, owners of 54 acres next door to the north, offering to connect the two properties and provide a traffic light opposite the Piedmont property so shoppers can avoid Pine Trail if they're going north.

But residents say those improvements won't help enough to make up for the additional traffic exiting the shopping center onto Pine Trail with plans to go south on 85.

Developers planning to build a Waffle House at the corner of Ramah Road and Hwy. 85 south also will appeal the Planning Commission's denial of a variance to allow more parking. City ordinances limit the commission's discretion in such variances. The group can approve up to 2 percent more parking that the law allows, and no more.

Waffle House representatives said the restaurant requires more parking because most of its customers arrive alone.

Also on the agenda will be a sign variance request from Fayetteville Towne Center (Kroger) on Hwy. 85 south, and a beer and wine license request from Publix in Fayette Pavilion.

Rezoning requests include:

Tim Trammell's request to rezone 3.11 acres across Commerce Drive from the Courtyard at Habersham Park subdivision from C-2 (commercial) to R-THC, a category that allows townhouses. Trammel wants to build two duplexes and a triplex on the property, but the Planning Commission recommends denial based on a conflict in the zoning ordinances. Staff is working on revisions of the ordinance.

Mary and John Ronas' request to change the zoning of their house next to First Baptist Church from a residential category to O-I (office-institutional). The home burned recently, and the owners have decided to sell the land rather than rebuild. Situated in a downtown office/commercial area, the land will sell more easily if zoned for offices, said a spokesman for the couple.

A rezoning request from Prince of Peace Lutheran Church to rezone its land from R-40 residential to O-I to expand the church facilities. Planning Commission recommended approval.

W. H. Calloway's request for annexation of his 2.8 acres and placing the land in the R-40 residential category.

The property should have been annexed years ago, said chief planner Jahnee Prince, but was inadvertently left out of a mass annexation.

Hayes Development Corp.'s request for annexation and O-I zoning for 3.9 acres on the north side of Ga. Highway 54 west between Fayette Community Hospital and Sandy Creek Road. The firm wants to use the land for a bank and two 9,100-sq. ft. office buildings. The Planning Commission recommends approval.