Customers will come for auto parts but it is the landscaping that will set off the new Auto Zone now under construction on Ga. Highway 74 adjacent to Black Jack Motorcycles. The store is located south of Milam Road near the Fayette County line.

Fairburn City Council Dec. 11 approved the landscape plan for the 7,381 square-foot auto parts store situated on approximately one-half acre. That approval included the installation of 58 trees and 374 shrubs.

Designed by Decatur landscape architect John Gieger, the project will include a required 35-foot landscape strip along Hwy. 74. Plans provide for an even larger landscape buffer area in the rear of the property. Tree-lined areas will also be installed on the north and south sides of the building. The building will face north toward Milam Road.

Specimen trees include 17 Red maple, 12 Bosque elm, four Fringetree, four cherry, three Crape mrytle, eight Nellie Stevens holly and 10 Yaupon holly. Shrubs include 97 cleyera, 62 Needlepoint holly, 123 loropetalum, 46 Crimson Pygmy barberry and 46 India hawthorne. Also included in the paln were daylilys and miscanthius.

Councilman Mario Avery voted in opposition to the measure, saying he was not convinced that an auto parts store was an appropriate use for the site.

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