Peachtree City officials may soon have a solution for finishing a cart path bridge over Flat Creek near Crosstown Road that will link homes on the southside to the city’s industrial park.

The City Council is expected to vote Thursday night on a design that will use a wooden approach system supported by a pile system.

Council is also expected to consider ratifying an annexation that it approved last year to allow 650 homes on 400 acres in a subdivision that would be restricted to residents 55 and older. The details are the same as that approved last year for Levitt and Sons but the applicant is now the landowner: Scarbrough and Rolader Development of Fayetteville.

Faced with a faltering economy, Levitt backed out of the project and sold the annexed land to Scarbrough and Rolader.

A yes vote from council would only authorize city officials to work with the developer on preparing the final annexation application and not approve the annexation itself. Scarbrough and Rolader is working with nearby landowner John Wieland Homes to finish the extension of MacDuff Parkway at no cost to the city.

The new Flat Creek bridge approach design would allow water to go under the bridge approaches, unlike the earthen embankment previously proposed. A number of nearby homeowners worried that the earthen embankment would cause water to back up during flood conditions despite the presence of culverts to help move the water through.

The cost estimate for the wood bridge will be similar if not less than the earthen embankment approach, city staff said in a memo to Council.

Much like the bridge spanning the CSX railroad tracks on Ga. Highway 54, the Flat Creek bridge assembly itself has been in place for some time. The project was delayed after residents in the area worried about flooding issues convinced the city to go back to the drawing board with the approach path design.

The bridge will be accessed via a path that extends from the Morallion Hills subdivision. It will connect with Gardner Park, a road in the city’s industrial park.

If the current timeline remains intact, the bridge approaches will likely not be completed until November 2009 at the earliest, according to city estimates.

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