53 homes axed; total reduced to 699 homes on 400 acres

Levitt and Sons has reduced the number of homes it is seeking to build in its proposed senior housing community “Seasons at Peachtree City,” which is part of a 779-acre annexation proposal for west Peachtree City.

In its recent filing with the Atlanta Regional Commission and the Georgia Regional Transportation Association, the builder has reduced the proposed number of homes from 752 to 699, according to a Levitt representative.

In light of several council members’ wishes to reduce the density of the Seasons project, an attorney for Levitt promised several months ago that the density of the proposed project would be reduced once the company got more input from GRTA and ARC. The recent change lowers the density of Seasons from 2.07 homes per acre to 1.75 homes per acre and it will also increase the amount of open space for the subdivision to more than 200 acres, a Levitt representative said.

The 400-acre parcel is located north of MacDuff Parkway, which Levitt and John Wieland Homes will extend northward to Ga. Highway 74 at the intersection of north Kedron Drive as part of the proposed annexation; that project will require a bridge over the CSX railroad.

Wieland wants to build 546 homes on a 379-acre tract that it hopes to have annexed and an additional 335 attached townhomes on a contiguous 79-acre parcel that’s already in the city limits along the CSX railroad tracks but is currently zoned for industrial use.

That adds up to 1,633 residential units on a total of 788 acres, a net density of 2.07 units per acre. The projected population of both projects combined is anticipated to be approximately 3,743 residents.

The developers have filed one single application with the regional agencies because combined they meet the threshold for review as a “development of regional impact.”

The Fayette County Commission won a legal battle to preserve the two-acre minimum lot zoning for some of the land Wieland is requesting to annex. Pathway Communities, the previous land owner, lost its lawsuit which sought a rezoning to minimum lot sizes of one acre.

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