Plans for harvesting pine trees from 30 to 40 acres adjacent to Panasonic Corporation on Ga. Highway 74 south have been proposed to the Peachtree City planning staff.

City Planner David Rast told the Planning Commission Monday that a logging company has asked for a permit "to timber" the acreage, but Rast wrote immediately to Panasonic executive Tim Banks, asking for more information. Rast said Wednesday that he has not received a reply.

"We would treat this like any other request for pre-clearing or pre-grading, making sure all of this is Panasonic's land," he said. "The timber company said they would take only pine trees and leave the hardwoods, but there would probably be a lot of damage done to the remaining trees. We would have to know that the buffers would be protected, and the amount of land needed for right-of-way for the widening of Hwy. 74. We just need to know more before this request can be presented to the Planning Commission."

The Planning Commission also heard that an application to rezone at Bridge Park for an assisted living facility was withdrawn by the applicant. Jerry Peterson of Pathway Communities, who was working with Grand Court Company on the proposed development, said the company had determined that the cost of construction at that location would not be feasible.

Four annexations and zonings of small tracts on Greenwood Lane, Loring Lane and Crabapple Lane East were approved by the commission for recommendation to City Council. These are residential parcels partly in the city of Tyrone but accessible only from Peachtree City.

The commission heard a redevelopment presentation from Universal Refining L.L.C., a Fairburn company which plans to relocate to the former Georgia Pacific Resins site on Dividend Drive. Universal recycles used motor oil by processing it into a high-BTU, low-sulphur fuel for power plants and paper mills, according to CEO Barry Paul.