Planners OK 3 new hotels, including 4-story Hilton

Tue, 10/09/2007 - 3:36pm
By: John Munford

Three new hotels are about to start sprouting up in Peachtree City.

The largest, a four-story Hilton Garden Inn, will be built at the end of Commerce Drive at the north end of Westpark and have 93 rooms, down from the original proposal for a five-story building with 100 rooms.

Also coming just to the north on Wisdom Road — yet visible from Ga. Highway 74 — is a Fairfield Inn and Suites, which will also be four stories with 84 rooms. It will be located behind an existing commercial strip just south of the Shell Oil convenience store.

The third hotel approved by the planning commission Monday night is a Comfort Inn and Suites that will be located behind the Zaxby’s restaurant and Newnan Coweta Bank in the Lexington Circle development at Ga. Highway 54 and Walt Banks Road.

The Comfort Inn will have 72 rooms and be a three-story building, which will be unique because of the design guidelines in place at Lexington Circle. The building is close to the curb and is broken up by windows, awnings and other architectural features.

The Comfort Inn must be approved by the development’s architectural review board before it may proceed, noted City Planner David Rast.

Commissioners liked the changes to the Hilton Garden Inn plan, which included moving the building forward toward a lower spot on the property and adding golf cart parking with charging stations to the parking lot, which will be in the rear.

The commission also urged the developer of the Fairfield Inn and Suites to provide pedestrian access to the Wisdom Pointe retail center which features several restaurants. The Fairfield site has some quite a bit of greenspace, including some that buffers it from the Woodsmill subdivision, Rast said.

As for the Comfort Inn and Suites, on-street parking has been eliminated between the hotel and the Zaxby’s, which allows for more landscaping, Rast said.

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Submitted by McDonoughDawg on Tue, 10/09/2007 - 5:01pm.

"The commission also urged the developer of the Fairfield Inn and Suites to provide pedestrian access to the Wisdom Pointe retail center which features several restaurants. The Fairfield site has some quite a bit of greenspace, including some that buffers it from the Woodsmill subdivision, Rast said."

My question is, what is wrong with REQUIRING pedestrian access in this case? It makes no sense otherwise.

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