Plans are forthcoming to clear some land at McIntosh High School for new practice fields, the Peachtree City Planning Commission heard Monday.

City Planner David Rast said the Fayette school systems' facilities manager, Mike Satterfield, had met with city planners to talk about opening up some more land because "the students are constrained" by available fields, Rast said.

"There's a lot of acreage there," Rast said, "but a lot of ravines and gullies, so they'll prepare a plan for us to consider."

The commission approved landscape plans for Don Pablo's Mexican Kitchen and for World Travel Partners. Both plans include additional trees required by the city as a result of damage to tree save areas during initial clearing or grading.

The site for Don Pablo's, at MarketPlace Blvd. and Ga. Highway 54, will be significantly filled and bermed to enhance the site and insure tree survival, said landscape architect Annette Bowman. She outlined use of boulder rock, yucca and other plants to "go along with the look of a Mexican restaurant."

The commission's approval also called for examining ways of burying utilities in the MarketPlace area, and continuing to look at a "cart path connection" for the area.

World Travel Partners will have to examine its lighting height and angles to minimize "spillover" toward the residents of Coventry Place, the commission stipulated. The 24-hour operation will not have the same type lighting that is causing problems with other businesses in the Westpark area, Rast said, and additional buffer trees should help.

The builders of World Travel Partners also have agreed to raise the building's roof parapet to conceal heating and air conditioning units and other rooftop equipment, Rast said.

A conceptual site plan for Westpark Drive Office Building, brought by Group VI, was approved with some modifications to be negotiated between the city and developers. Mike Amos of Group VI described the building as a "sand beige" that would blend with nearby buildings. He asked for consideration of moving several parking spaces, re-angling a retaining wall in the detention pond area and negotiating the route of a cart path with adjacent properties.

"Just be sure to tell your grading contractor," commissioner Willis Granger told Amos, "don't clear the trees in the buffer. We have to get that message across."