Peachtree City has filed an appeal with the Georgia Regional Transportation Agency seeking to overturn requirements for transportation improvements in the city for a proposed 3,000-home development just across Line Creek in Coweta County.

“They’re making all these requirements but they’re not putting any money with it,” Mayor Harold Logsdon told The Citizen Saturday morning.

One of the requirements is to super-size the bridge going over Line Creek for the TDK Boulevard Extension so it can handle four lanes of traffic. The road and bridge were previously designed as a two-lane road. At a meeting last week, members of City Council strongly indicated they would only support the TDK Extension as a two-lane road.

“I’m not going to build a four-lane road,” Logsdon said, noting that Peachtree City had no plans to put any more money into the project. “... If we made it a four-lane, there would be a lot of traffic that would just dump on Hwy. 74, which is already stressed.”

Getting additional right-of-way to expand the TDK Extension from two to four lanes would prove challenging anyway, Logsdon said, noting that the Planterra Ridge golf course has already “been squeezed” by the land needed for the road path and runway safety area for nearby Falcon Field. Logsdon also said the Federal Aviation Administration, which paid a $2 million grant to get that runway safety area, is highly unlikely to give up any of that real estate to allow for another road expansion.

Another of GRTA’s requirements for McIntosh Village is for Peachtree City to put a traffic signal at the intersection of TDK Boulevard and Dividend Drive when necessary due to traffic.

City officials met with GRTA last week, making the case that a number of road improvements in Coweta County should be prioritized to handle traffic from the proposed McIntosh Village, which will have more than 3,000 homes and about 600,000 square feet of retail. Logsdon said GRTA needs to make sure Ga. Highway 154 in Coweta is widened to four lanes and improvements should also be made on Fischer Road to help provide additional access to Interstate 85.

“We want GRTA to use their power and influence to expedite the money to do something in Coweta County,” Logsdon said.

Logsdon said the TDK Extension is needed to provide more east-west connectors between Peachtree City and Coweta County, and several more will be needed further north off Ga. Highway 74, perhaps at Crabapple Lane.