Friday, July 23, 1999
Friday, July 23, 1999 |
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MONROE ROARK A major development planned for the proposed Line Creek Parkway is among the items slated for discussion at Monday night's regular Peachtree City Planning Commission meeting. Developers of a 396-unit apartment complex will present their conceptual site plan for approval at the meeting. The issue was tabled at the last meeting. The apartments are planned for the east side of the parkway, near its starting point at Ga. Highway 54. Phase one of the road has been approved, stretching approximately 1,200 feet north from Hwy. 54, across from the Days Inn west of Ga. Highway 74. A cluster home development consisting of about 218 lots is planned for the tract bordering the apartments on the north. The first phase of the parkway will end near the entrance to the cluster home subdivision. Grading has begun for the parkway, which is currently planned to extend to the city limits. There has been talk of eventually stretching the road farther north and east to Hwy. 74, across the railroad tracks, but that would require annexing land into the city and is far in the future, if it is ever done at all. If approved, the apartment complex will sit on about 27 acres, some of which is considered wetlands. If the conceptual site plan is approved, the developers will have to deal with wetland issues at the state and federal level, according to city planner David Rast. Bordering the apartments on the south would be an access road connecting Line Creek Parkway with several commercial lots backing up to Hwy. 54. Those are still in the planning stages, as RAM Development wants the city to let it also develop the west corner lot where the highway and the parkway meet, next to Wynnmeade subdivision. That area was designated as open space in the settlement agreement reached a few years ago ending litigation related to the site, according to an opinion by city attorneys. The Planning Commission nixed the idea of developing that corner, but the developers can plead their case to the City Council. It was the litigation that brought about the apartments in the first place. A previous city ordinance allowed apartments in commercial zonings, but the city went to court and fought a huge apartment development planned for the area. This 396-unit complex is a portion of what was allowed as a result of the settlement. Other items on the Planning Commission agenda Monday night include conceptual site plans for the Nelson office building at Petrol Point and Tivoli Garden, and the Burger King/convenience store at Hwy. 74 and Aberdeen Parkway. A public hearing is scheduled for a requested rezoning for tract A of the Robinson Neighborhood Center.
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