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PTC to annex shopping center?

Fri, 05/08/2009 - 3:34pm
By: John Munford

Planners to consider bringing Peachtree East into the city

A proposal to annex the 17-plus acre Peachtree East shopping center just outside the eastern Peachtree City limits will be considered Monday night by the city’s planning commission.

Though no additional development is proposed for the site, including the center inside Peachtree City would “better enable the restaurant tenants to compete in the tough restaurant environment,” according to the annexation request submitted by the three firms that own the center. That indicates that the applicant wants the ability to serve alcohol on Sundays, which is not allowed in the unincorporated county.

Putting the center in the city limits would also guarantee the city would provide fire and police protection which are currently provided by Fayette County.

In addition to the anchor Publix and SteinMart stores, Peachtree East is home to the Italian Oven and a Starbucks.

All told, the site has more than 147,000 square feet of shops, but no “significant” changes to the site’s layout, design or amount of developed square footage is anticipated, the owner indicated in the annexation application.

The site is already served by the city’s sewer system, and its current zoning designation is community commercial under the county’s zoning system. The owners are seeking a limited use commercial rezoning for the site, and they have pledged to cooperate with a potential golf cart path bridge that could possibly be installed across Ga. Highway 54.

The applicant projects that the city would have gotten more than $194,000 in property taxes had the shopping center been in the city limits in 2005. But the city will have to provide dedicated police and fire services, which are currently provided by Fayette County.

The development is immediately adjacent to the Shiloh mobile home park.

The commission’s vote will be one of recommendation only. The final say on the matter rests with the city council.

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Shiloh mobile home park.
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Submitted by Gene61 on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 12:46pm.

Why not annex the park as well? Force it to rise to the same standards as and clean its act up..


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Shiloh
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Submitted by Don Haddix on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 2:21pm.

Trailer homes are not allowed in PTC. There is no zoning to even put them in.

Most homes cost more in infrastructure and service costs than they return in taxes. These type homes are among the worst in that area, especially when considering except in unique cases they depreciate in value, which makes the problem even worse.

Just annexing to make something look better is a bad reason, normally, for bringing something in. All you do is move the city limits out to the new neighboring property, which opens a door for building new undesirable uses on our doorstep and starts all the issues over again.

There has to be a really good reason to annex. Otherwise it is effectively just growing the city for no true gain, just more costs.

The Publix and Steinmart centers will bring $26,000 plus into the city coffers and get them conformed to PTC while the trailer park and commercial areas do not allow more land for development on our border.

Don Haddix
PTC Councilman
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Its TRALOR......DON...
Submitted by mysteryman on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 5:15pm.

Why not annex... Whats the difference bettween Shilo, and say Wisdom Woods???? Or Wisdom Woods and Wynnmeade???? Section 8 is what it is, and it cost just as much to provide all those Baby Mamas with free daycare in our school systems, while they pay absolutely nothing in taxes while living in our community. Absentee landlords and homeowners are filling our community with scum, and could care less as long as they get their end.. This is just another way the government will use to avoid cleaning up an obivous problem that needs to be addressed..BLESS

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Come back with a coherent thought..
Submitted by Spyglass on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 9:09pm.

And we'll talk.

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Steve Brown: Go for it
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Submitted by Steve Brown on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 3:49pm.

Annex the shopping center, not Shiloh moblie home park.

The Fayette Planning and Zoning people from way back when deserve some credit for forcing a much better looking shopping center than the county would normally have approved. The incorporated many of PTC's standards, and, PERHAPS, as a condition of annexation the development owner can agree to bringing it all the way to PTC standards.


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Already done, Steve
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Submitted by Don Haddix on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 6:36pm.

We required bringing it up to our standards in Step 1. Due to the huge price tag they have 7 years to fully comply.

Don Haddix
PTC Councilman
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Mr Haddix - Tell us your plans if you were mayor
Submitted by GAltant on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 12:02pm.

Dear Mr. Haddix
Every time I read your posts, I found something is missing, sort of hollow...I finally figured it out....a platform! Mr. Haddix, what is YOUR platform for mayor? Tell us your plan and vision for PTC

Instead of referencing the magical "3" and every thing those "evil" people have done to Peachtree City...all while being puppets the "all powerful" developers why not lay out your platform.

Please, no more retoric...tell us the your plan so we can start to the process of deciding if you are the right choice for mayor.

Tell us you plan on thew following:

1-Taxes - are you planning an increase?
2-Balancing the budget? How will you do that? and with a anti-development policy, how will manage the budget in the future?
3-City services...how will you maintain them under the current budget constraints?
4-City assets...are you going to sell some? what is planned with the money you raise?
5-Anti-development - how will you handle the developers? are you going to dis-band the planning commission since there ill be no development?
6-Job creation - how many jobs do you envision creating during your term of office?
7-New business..what is your plan to bring new business to PTC? How are you going to attract new business to town and what type of businesses? what is your plan?

Please tell us.
Thanks

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Why ask this everywhere?
Submitted by Spyglass on Sun, 05/10/2009 - 9:06am.

Seriously, what's your end game?

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I Think.....
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Submitted by DarkMadam on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 12:05pm.

That he just wants an answer. And from what I see he isn't getting one.


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