A request to rezone a 3.82-acre residential tract so it could be subdivided into two separate tracts was denied by the Peachtree City Council last week.

The rezoning was sought because the owner, Thomas Haynes, has not been able to sell the property in over a year, according to his attorney, Melissa Griffis of Newnan. The tract features two homes, one of which is a guest home, that are located on Carriage Lane in the Shakerag Plantation subdivision.

No one wants to buy the property because the second house can only be used as a guest house, Griffis said.

The lot is zoned for estate residential use, a zoning classification that features the largest minimum lot sizes in the city.

The irony is that back in 2001 a similar request to subdivide the property was denied to build a second home, city officials notified Haynes that he could build a guest house on the property, and ultimately that’s what he did.

Several residents spoke against the rezoning, airing concerns such as the potential precedent it would set for other large estate-residential lots to be rezoned in the city.

“With the concerns of the ER lots over on Robinson Road, it sets a precedence and I’m not willing to go down that road,” said Mayor Harold Logsdon.

The vote to deny the rezoning was unanimous.

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