Coweta County’s massive new zoning ordinances won’t be totally finished for another six months.

On Tuesday night, the County Commission voted to not implement the new village center section of the ordinance until the fall after planning director Robert Tolleson suggested his staff might need some time to get used to many of the other changes in the zoning ordinances.

The new village concept has been a controversial part of the ordinance since it was first proposed The concept calls for large, mixed-use developments that be the size of small cities. Residents were upset when two locations, Macedonia in western Coweta County and McIntosh, near Sharpsburg, were placed on the future land use map. During Tuesday’s meeting, Tolleson asked those two locations be stricken from the map and zoning ordinances.

Other components of the village ordinance cover crossroads service center an mill villages. Tolleson said those would stay in the new ordinances, but he did recommend that the residential component of a crossroads development be removed.

“It will now be a commercial area that serves existing residences,’ he said.

The name of the zoning category would also change to crossroads service center and have to be a minimum of 20 acres and at least one mile from another crossroads or village development.

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