PTC postpones senior apartment rezoning

Thu, 10/04/2007 - 7:52pm
By: The Citizen

A proposal for a 360-unit senior living facility off Rockaway Road in Peachtree City was tabled Thursday night by the City Council.

The plan requires a rezoning to move forward and the applicant Dominion Partners is seeking a limited use commercial zoning instead of the current general industrial rezoning. The facility would be located off a previously approved shopping center just off Ga. Highway 74 south across from the Wilshire Pavilion shopping center.

Among the concerns expressed by several council members was the size of the main building and the placement of six condo buildings on a six-acre site adjacent to the Meade recreational field complex. There were also concerns expressed about the size of the four-story main building which contains assisted living, memory care and other regular apartments of both one and two bedrooms.

Councilman Mike Harman said he’d like to see the six-acre portion south of Rockaway Road have better screening from the road. Councilman Stuart Kourajian said he’d rather see the property left vacant, and John Gorecki of Dominion Partners noted that part of the parcel is worth $1 million.

“My job isn’t to make the developer money,” Kourajian said, who also didn’t like the fact that the community would have gates that would close at night.

Councilwoman Cyndi Plunkett noted that she was concerned the plan didn’t show any benefit for the rest of Peachtree City. She also said she wanted to see financial figures as to whether or not the development would be revenue-positive or revenue-negative for the city.

Gorecki said the on-site medical staff would resolve any life-threatening emergencies before a city ambulance got on the scene.

The $50 million project would be built on a 25-acre parcel, leaving a remaining 78 acres of wetlands untouched. The project is aimed at the top 10 percent of the market and Dominion Partners will stipulate that none of the units could be rented under the federal section 8 program.

The entire area will be deed restricted to people 55 and up, but the average age of the company’s current communities is around 75, Gorecki said.

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Submitted by Stonewall on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 6:30am.

If these were the highlights of what was said I hope these people were not educated in Fayette County !!!

"Councilman Stuart Kourajian said he’d rather see the property left vacant" Which Zoning is that? Then he should buy it! They even say they are leaving 78 acres of wetlands untouched. Sounds like he is getting his cake and eating it too.

I wonder if the employment of this council is revenue-positive or revenue-negative for Peachtree City?

Submitted by skyspy on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 7:33am.

Smart developers leave most wetlands alone. Most are fed by natural springs. Most homes crumble when built ontop of natural springs.

Revenue positive? Most of these developments don't seem to be generating the cash flow to cover the expense of adding them. If they did we would not have to dip into our emergency slush fund to keep the city running.

I love the leave it vacant part. Turn it into a park and call it a day.

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Submitted by eodnnaenaj1 on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 7:49am.

"Smart developers", makes me wonder what that would make county road builders! Don't know if you read the day zoes and I talked about the F'ville bypass, I had talked about 'wetlands' then. The bypass is planned to go through a property that I know must qualify as wetlands . . .in fact someone from the county had told me the route may change because that property may be a wetland. However, at this point I've not heard of any change of plans, so guess we gonna build right over the waters, or have a real long bridge! Ain't progress grand!


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