The conceptual site plan for the proposed Home Depot on Ga. Highway 54 West was tabled once again by the Peachtree City Planning Commission at this week's meeting, but city officials say that there has apparently been some progress.

The plan was originally tabled because the commission determined that a complete application had not been submitted. It has since been resubmitted, and all requested information is now included, city staff said.

Work is continuing on an overall landscape concept to include the first phase of the development (the Home Depot section) and the buffer area next to the commercial outparcels along the highway. The plan “appears to be moving in the right direction,” according to city staff. The applicant, RAM Development, has also prepared a traffic impact study and forwarded it to the city's traffic consultant for review. Once that is done, a mitigation plan will be prepared.

If nothing is done traffic-wise at the site, city development director Jim Williams said Monday night, the development of the first phase would obviously drop the traffic rating there to an `F'. Until RAM representatives meet with Dames and Moore, the traffic consultants, no meaningful action can be taken by the Planning Commission, according to Williams, and this should be done before the next meeting on Nov. 22.

RAM's Doug McMurrain said that two meetings had been held with representatives of the church currently located at the site, and the church is considering several options presented by the developers.

McMurrain stressed that his company has been “cooperative” and done “a lot of work” to comply with the city's numerous requests, but he reiterated his firm's position that the new traffic impact ordinance does not apply to this project because the application was made before the ordinance was passed.

“There's a lot of work to do in the next couple of weeks,” said commission chairman Wes Saunders as the vote to table the plan was made.

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