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PTC tables road abandonment for shopping centerThu, 02/07/2008 - 9:14pm
By: The Citizen
Decision postponed to meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. Though no vote was taken either way, the Peachtree City Council appeared tonight to inch its way toward approving the abandonment of two city roads to make physical room for a big box store to be built at the southwest corner of Ga. Highway 54 West and Planterra Way. Councilwoman Cyndi Plunkett, who is essentially the swing vote on the matter, said she wanted to make sure all the conditions agreed to by Capital City Development verbally at the meeting were instead in writing so they could be enforceable not just for CCD but any potential future owner of the property. Council voted to table the matter and take it back up at a special called meeting Wednesday night so City Attorney Ted Meeker and CCD attorney Rick Lindsey could hammer out the necessary language for the conditions on the road abandonment. Among the conditions CCD agreed to were the payment of at least $500,000 to the city in return for most of Line Creek Drive and all of Line Creek Circle. In addition to paying the appraised value for the roads, CCD also agreed if the roads were abandoned that no gas station would be developed on the property. Without the roads, the 14-acre site would not have enough room to place large retail big box stores due to required city setbacks from the city-owned roads. Councilman Don Haddix said he thought the roads’ public purpose was to prevent development, but Plunkett said she thought the public purpose for the road was to be able to negotiate a development that would benefit the entire city. Haddix and councilman Doug Sturbaum have both said they don’t favor granting the road abandonment, and Mayor Harold Logsdon and Councilman Steve Boone have said they favor the abandonment. Plunkett said she would not vote to approve a special use permit for a big box store around 100,000 square feet, nor did she like the idea of having say six stores of 50,000 square feet each. But she did like the idea of having two smaller stores as offered in another plan that was previously offered by CCD. The latest plan offered by CCD includes a gas station directly off Hwy. 54 with a total of 99,000 square feet of stores including several restaurants. Council postponed a vote to approve or deny that plan, which was necessitated after the city's planning commission recently denied the plan. That vote, too, has been moved to Wednesday night. login to post comments
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