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PTC to consider larger store for 54WMon, 01/04/2010 - 10:39am
By: John Munford
A proposal to upsize a “big box” store for a new shopping center on Ga. Highway 54 West at Planterra Way is up for a vote by the Peachtree City Council Thursday night. Currently, the largest store allowed on the site is capped at 50,000 sq. ft., up from the city’s normal limit of 32,000 sq. ft. Now Capital City Development wants the cap raised to 65,000 sq. ft., ostensibly to allow room for a Kohl’s Department Store, an Academy Sports store or a potential movie theater. Capital City currently has the right to build up to three 50,000 square foot stores on the site for a total of 175,000 square feet for the entire development. The company is proposing to eliminate two of those large stores which instead would be built under the city’s size limit of 32,000 square feet each, according to CCD’s Doug McMurrain. The company is also requesting that it be allowed to build a third store up to 32,000 square feet. According to city staff, if council agrees to the change CCD will have to apply for an amendment to its special use permit for the site and the existing development agreement between CCD and the city will have to be amended. Staff would review the request as part of the special use permit request, according to Community Development Director David Rast. With the recent announcement of a movie theater coming barely over a mile down the road in Coweta County, the prospects of a different movie company coming to Peachtree City may have dimmed. With four new council members in office, the request is expected to face a significant amount of scrutiny. The slate elected by voters each indicated they prefer to avoid big boxes in a bid to improve the city’s village shopping centers, some of which have suffered as much commercial development has moved to Hwy. 54 West in the past few years. The shopping center, which abuts Cardiff Park at the rear, is already zoned for general commercial development. It also will be served by a traffic light on Hwy. 54 West that was approved by the Georgia Department of Transportation after the City Council intervened on CCD’s behalf. That light will be in-between the existing lights for Planterra Way and MacDuff Parkway. Prior to the city’s intervention, DOT had turned down CCD’s request for the traffic light on two previous occasions. login to post comments |