Fayetteville continues to build up and out west along Ga. Highway 54. Council members May 18 will consider two requests that would add nearly 120,000 square feet of office and retail space at Brandywine Boulevard Extension and Grady Avenue.

The Brandywine rezoning request would locate two 31,000 square-foot office buildings on seven acres along Hwy. 54 W. and Brandywine Boulevard Extension. Currently zoned C-3, the request is for an OI (Office/Institutional) designation.

The proposed mixed office and retail buildings would be situated behind Southern Community Bank and Brandywine Corners retail center.

The request is the second phase of the Brandywine development, said Planning and Zoning Director Eldridge Gunn, and conforms to the city’s future land use map. The proposed buildings will be architecturally similar to the Southern Community Bank building.

The proposed buildings will front on Brandywine Boulevard Extension. They will share a detention pond at the rear of the property. The buildings will have interparcel access to the developments adjacent to Hwy. 54, Gunn said. The proposal calls for a 30-foot buffer between the new buildings and adjacent residential properties. Project plans also call for 42 percent greenspace.

A few blocks east on the southeast corner of Grady Avenue and Hwy. 54 is a proposed development on five acres that would construct six mixed use office and retail buildings totaling nearly 60,000 square feet. The rezoning request would designate the property as C-1 (Downtown Commercial) from its current R-30 zoning.

The proposal includes two retail buildings, 14,000 square feet and 11,250 square feet, fronting Hwy. 54, two 6,000 square-foot office buildings fronting Grady Avenue and two 2-story 9,968 square-foot buildings at the rear of the property.

Also at the meeting, the council will hear the first reading of proposed changes to the city’s Parade Ordinance in response to a request by Police Chief Steve Heaton.

In an April 27 memo, Heaton said the requested changes were due to the number of requests for parades and other events that require an increase of services from the Police Department and other city departments.

Heaton also asked that consideration be given to establishing approved parade routes and fee schedule based on those approved routes be considered.

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