Two vacancies on the Peachtree City Planning Commission were filled by the City Council at last week's regular meeting.

Robert W. Ames and Dr. Richard L. Schumacher will fill posts vacated by Julian Campbell and Geraldine Holt on the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

City Council appointed the new members during its regular meeting last week.

Campbell's and Holt's terms expire at the end of this month.

Robert W. Brown was appointed to serve as an alternate.

Ames is an architect who has been an alternate for some time now, while Schumacher served on a similar board in another community. Brown is a resident of Planterra Ridge who has participated in a number of issues before the Planning Commission and the City Council in recent years.

Mayor Bob Lenox, Councilman Robert Brooks and city manager Jim Basinger conducted interviews for the positions, narrowing the group down from 12 finalists.

Both Lenox and Brooks said that the selection process was difficult, as all were good candidates.

Meanwhile, the Planning Commission continues its work throughout September, with its next regular meeting scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

A pair of agenda items carried over from last month are the landscape plans for Peachtree City Distribution Center at Ga. Highway 74 and Dividend Drive and the practice fields at McIntosh High School.

The city reported last week that the school system has recently stepped up and done a great deal of the work that was discussed at the last Planning Commission meeting as being overdue, such as a guard rail along Walt Banks Road and some improvements on the slopes surrounding the field.

Eckerd is scheduled to present its conceptual site plan for its proposed new location at Ga. Highway 54 and Peachtree Parkway.

The drug store chain plans to leave its current location at the same intersection, in the Peachtree Crossing shopping center, and move across the highway next door to Ruby Tuesday, in the space formerly occupied by Morrison's. A new building will likely be constructed there for Eckerd.

First Union Bank at Kedron Village is also expected to present a conceptual site plan Monday, and the final item on the agenda as of Wednesday was a conceptual site plan for the Riley Field track/football complex on Wisdom Road.

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