Plans to build a Walgreens pharmacy along Ga. Highway 74 and the new not-yet-built realignment of Rockaway Road was approved by the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night.

The company seeking the approval, Merganser Enterprises of Atlanta, agreed to add three golf cart parking spaces and make another eight parking spaces with pervious surfaces, which will allow rain water to filter back into the ground instead of going into the city’s stormwater system.

Because the Rockaway realignment construction is not yet underway, the store will be served by a temporary road off Hwy. 74 that will be torn out and re-landscaped once Rockaway Road is complete, said Merganser attorney Rick Lindsey.

The store will feature the signature Walgreens “tower” element, with the company logo visible through a glass partition above the entrance. But the building will have a brick and stone exterior that will make it look different from most other Walgreens stores, Lindsey said.

The site will not need a trash bin, Lindsey explained, because a trash compactor will be used instead. The compactor will be carted off, emptied and returned by a vendor instead of creating the typical clanging noises associated with containers that are lifted and emptied into the back of a large trash truck, Lindsey indicated.

Merganser has committed to installing a cluster of plantings facing the Holly Grove/Rockaway Road intersection on Hwy. 74 to address an area where there is little existing vegetation to save.

Also, to screen the rear of the store that will face a residential parcel, a dense wall of trees is proposed, Lindsey said. The trees will abut an access drive that will continue northward to serve the remainder of the development.

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