Wednesday, December 6, 2000
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Wednesday, December 6, 2000 |
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PTC Council asked to lift ban on more apartments
By JOHN MUNFORD
The latest concept plan for the new John Wieland Homes subdivision on the Katz property in Peachtree City includes 110 town homes. As a result, the City Council will decide Thursday night whether to lift the city's multifamily housing moratorium for the project. Dan Fields of John Wieland Homes said the new concept plan is responding to a wish from council that the subdivision have more open space and park areas. "The only way to do that was to use town homes," Fields said. The density of the project has not changed, Fields said. In September, council approved a plan to have no more than 350 homes on the 101 acres inside the city and an additional 80 acres adjacent to the property that are in unincorporated Fayette County. The area in question is a part of what has been called the West Village and lies in the city's northwest quadrant, north of Ga. Highway 54 and Wynnmeade subdivision and west of Ga. Highway 74. Efforts to annex the unincorporated area as part of a larger West Village ignited a firestorm of protest to the City Council earlier this year and were abandoned. Later, the council agreed to rezone the property from general industrial to general residential despite a recommendation to deny the rezoning from the Planning Commission. The town homes cover approximately a third of the proposed subdivision, Fields said. The price range for the various homes in the subdivision will start in the high $100,000s up to the low $400,000s, Fields said. Developers have asked for city sewer service for the part inside the city, according to a Water and Sewer Authority official. The homes in the unincorporated portion will remain unsewered and on septic tanks, Larry Turner, general manager of the sewer system, said. John Wieland Homes hopes to have the first homes occupied in the spring of 2002. The land also includes a school site which the Fayette County Board of Education could use to build an elementary school to serve the new subdivision and surrounding area. Fields said he wanted to bring the concept plan back before council to make sure council members are aware of the new changes.
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