A new 600-seat sanctuary for the Fayette County Church of Christ has cleared one hurdle and faces two more rounds of public hearings.

The Fayetteville Planning Commission has voted to recommend that the City Council approve the congregation's rezoning request to allow the church at Redwine and Price roads on the city's south side.

City Council will conduct first reading of the request to rezone the property from R-40 residential to O&I (office and institutional) during its business meeting Monday, with plans to have another public hearing and vote on the request April 19. Both meetings are at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

If the zoning change is approved, the church must go back to the Planning Commission with its development plan for the property.

In its recommendation, the Planning Commission included a condition that the property be used only for a church.

In other business last week, the Planning Commission approved several development plans for businesses, including:

A new Kauffman Tire Company location Fayetteville Towne Center (Kroger) shopping center on Ga. Highway 85 South.

A Schlotzky's Deli restaurant with drive-through, with a row of shops behind the restaurant, next to Picadilly's Cafeteria at the corner of Hwy. 85 North and Banks Road.

An addition to Bell South Company's facility at 170 South Glynn St. Commissioners also approved a variance to allow the building closer to the street than normally required, with extra landscaping to screen the facility from the nearby Fayette County Historical Society headquarters building.

A medical office building for Dr. Stacy Smith in the Clairmont commercial subdivision, 290 Ga. Highway 314 North.

A new communications tower for AT&T at 162 Georgia Ave. West. The company will be required to remove its old tower at the site within 90 days.

Plans for a CVS super pharmacy at 510 N. Glynn St. were delayed until the commission's April meeting due to concerns over a driveway into the property from Ga. Highway 92 and the commission's insistence on a sidewalk to the store. Commissioners will consider the development plan again in a work session April 13 and business meeting April 20.

The business meeting has been moved up from the commission's usual second and fourth Tuesday meeting schedule because staff will be involved in a national conference on the 27th.

Commissioners also denied development plans for Steak and Shake. Thomas Enterprises hopes to develop the restaurant and one other on a site between Rent All Plaza and Fayette Pavilion on Hwy. 85, but plans presented to the commission showed the restaurants being served by city sewer. Since the majority of the property is outside the city, annexation will be required before the site can be hooked up to city sewerage.

The group approved a revised preliminary plat for Lakeside on Redwine subdivision, to allow a swimming pool to be moved closer to the street.