Plans for a 100-home subdivision on 20 acres just south of downtown Fayetteville are on the agenda for the Fayetteville City Council tonight and Monday.

But whether the council will act on the proposal depends upon whether the city Planning Commission took action in its meeting last night after press time.

Planning commissioners were expected to vote on a recommendation during their regular business meeting, and if they did so, City Council can act Monday.

City officials thus far have viewed the proposal from Bob Adams Homes with raised eyebrows.

Adams hopes to build a senior neighborhood at Beauregard and Grady Avenue, with homes as small as 1,200 square feet on lots as small as 6,000 square feet. Prices would run from $105,000 to the $180's, Adams told planning commissioners during a work session recently, adding that only a few homes would be at the low end of that range, occupied by single elderly residents.

Adams insists that although the neighborhood would have more homes per acre than others surrounding it, its impact on schools, traffic and other services would be minimal because its residents would be elderly.

The company's senior communities are dense by definition, because the 50-something buyers of Adams homes don't want big yards to maintain, he said.

Adams is asking for a change in zoning category from R-30, which allows single family homes on 30,000-sq. ft. lots, to R-THC, which allows townhouses as dense as 16 per acre.

Adams also told the Planning Commission recently that he made his request based on the city's old land use plan, which called for high density residential development on the site, but the city recently adopted a new land use plan that calls for medium-density development, about two homes per acre.

In earlier meetings, the Planning Commission tabled the request to give Adams time to meet with residents and iron out differences of opinion over his project.

Neighbors during Planning Commission meetings have strenuously objected, saying the neighborhood would add too much traffic to busy Grady Avenue and Beauregard Boulevard.

In other business tonight and Monday, the City Council will consider Joseph Sams School's request for a waiver of impact and proportionate share fees. The fees amount to about $16,000, but council members earlier said they were inclined to grant the impact fee waiver, but still charge the proportionate share fee for sewer service, saving about half of the total.