88-acre tract in West Village area sought by Wieland; also on tap: annexation of 35-acre ‘island’

A request to rezone an 88-acre tract from industrial to residential will be considered by the Peachtree City Planning Commission Monday night.

John Wieland Homes, which owns the land, wants to build a 350-unit development on the site, which is located on the west side of Ga. Highway 74 North and directly across from South Kedron Drive.

Wieland’s plan calls for 125 single family detached homes, 161 single family attached homes and 58 condominium homes. The latter is likely to be called into question after comments at a previous meeting from Mayor Harold Logsdon that the City Council is unlikely to approve any more condos for the city.

The commission is also slated to consider a request to annex 35 acres between several tracts that are currently surrounded by land that was annexed by the city last year. Referred to as the Hardy/Kidd/Whitlock/Wilks Grove tracts, the site is in between a 380-acre tract and a 400-acre tract that were annexed by the city last year. The tracts border Senoia Road.

The commission meeting starts at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

Wieland is planning to include “pocket parks” in its new development as passive recreation and three active recreation fields on the tract.

Hopes of connecting the subdivision to the highway have been scuttled by CSX railroad, which likely will close the at-grade crossing located at the former cable company building on the site.

Instead, the subdivision will be accessed via three road entrances that will lead to MacDuff Parkway and the adjacent planned “Connector Village” subdivision. MacDuff Parkway is being extended northward from its current terminus to Senoia Road to provide a link with Hwy. 74.

The road extension features a bridge over the railroad tracks that will also feature a golf cart lane, said Wieland Vice President Dan Fields.

The site plan includes a 150-foot buffer along the CSX railroad track and also a pool, exercise facility and tennis courts. All of those, plus landscaping of the pocket parks, will be paid for by the homeowner’s association, Fields said.

Though the parcel is currently zoned for industrial use, the city’s land use plan calls for it to be developed as office space.

Currently the land is zoned for students to attend Kedron Elementary School, Flat Rock Middle School and Sandy Creek High School.

Also on Monday’s agenda for the planning commission are three conceptual site plans for buildings at the Wilshire Village shopping center: Delta Community Credit Union, Discovery Point Child Development and Autozone.

That area is on Hwy. 74 in the southern tip of Peachtree City near Rockaway Road.