McIntosh Village may connect to PTC cart paths alongside TDK Extension; new sewer system could discharge into Line Creek

The new year could start off with a bang as the huge McIntosh Village project in eastern Coweta County heads towards its final approval process.

Last week, a committee of the Chattahoochee-Flint Regional Development Center gave its approval to the project.

Developer Tom Reese is planning a small city of upwards of 8,000 people on the western border of Fayette County in unincorporated Coweta County along McIntosh Trail. That’s the Coweta part of the controversial planned TDK Boulevard Extension project in Peachtree City.

The 1,500-acre site will by build-out include more than 3,100 homes, 100 retirement homes and 169 acres of commercial development that he says will resemble Destin Commons in northwest Florida.

When the development is completed in 15 years, it’s expected to be worth $1.7 billion and generate $150 million in property taxes for Coweta County.

On Tuesday, Coweta County Administrator Theron Gay said he sat in on a meeting with Reese and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA). Since the development is so large, it must first go through the Development of Regional Impact process and gather approval from the state’s planning agencies, such as GRTA, before it can be addressed at the county level.

Gay said that his initial impression of the meeting was that GRTA is looking favorably on the project, but wants to make sure all the transportation issues are addressed.

In his proposal, Reese offers a variety of alternative transportation in the project, including a trolley that would shuttle people to various locations in the commercial development.

He also plans on having a cart path system that could eventually hook up to Peachtree City via TDK Boulevard, which is on the back part of the property.

The project is slated to use 1.03 million gallons of water a day at build-out, and will also need just under 1 million gallons of sewer capacity. Reese had originally planned to use a land application system for sewerage treatment, but is in discussions with Coweta County about possibly using a stream discharge system into Line Creek, the border between the two counties and the site of the future Lake McIntosh, expected to be the final part of Fayette County’s water supply.

Gay said Coweta is possibly looking at a site south of Senoia for a treatment facility. If it’s built, the wastewater treatment center could possibly help alleviate Senoia and Sharpsburg’s quest for sewer capacity.