Developers eager to unearth some red dirt in Senoia will have to wait at least two more months after actions taken at Monday night's council meeting.

The council unanimously voted to extend the city's moratorium another two months to insure the planning commission is totally through with its work on the zoning map and the city's zoning ordinances.

Mayor Joan Trammell complimented the planning commission's work and noted the group had held 27 meetings to try to get all the city's zoning regulations and maps up to speed.

"This group has really worked hard together and is going to finish something that we've been trying to get done for years,' she said.

New planning commission chairman Darlene Stanley said the group had completed all the major tasks and was currently working on revisions with help from the town's zoning attorney, Frank Jenkins.

The town has been under a development moratorium since January, 1998, when Trammell charged the planning commission to take a close look at all the city's zoning regulations.

The moratorium was set to be lifted last June, but has been extended as the planning commission got further into reworking maps and ordinances.