Nearly pristine Aberdeen Parkway is about to become a little less pristine.

Peachtree City has approved only the second curb cut ever allowed onto thickly wooded Aberdeen Parkway for an 11,000-square-foot office building planned for the southwest corner of the eastbound parkway’s intersection with Northlake Drive.

Prior to this right-in, right-out curb cut, only the huge Dolcé Conference Center (built as a Pitney-Bowes training center in the mid-1980s) had even a single driveway access to the signature parkway in Peachtree City.

Now there will be two, including the new one for Northlake Woods office building, which will abut the historic Whitlock family cemetery next to Aberdeen Shopping Center on its south side and Westpark Court on its west side.

The site also will have another curb cut nearby on Northlake Drive, according to the memo from city staff to the City Council.

The office building owners are seeking a variance from City Council Thursday night to reduce the required 10-foot landscape strip along the rear of the property to 5 feet, to reduce the required number of parking spaces from 44 to 36 and to allow a stormwater control device to be placed within the 50-foot undisturbed buffer on Aberdeen Parkway.

City staff said in the memo to the City Council that it supports approval of all three variances. — Cal Beverly

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