When the home-building economy comes roaring back, there will be a little more raw land in Peachtree City available for residential development. That’s because a 2007 annexation of 783 acres north of MacDuff Parkway and west of Ga. Highway 74 North was upheld last month by the Georgia Supreme Court.
That paves the way for 1,125 homes to be built on the two separate tracts. Following both annexations, there was some talk of modifying the site plans to include a potential college campus for Atlanta Christian College, but such a plan never came to fruition as the college decided to relocate elsewhere.
The big catch of both rezonings is that the city will not issue a certificate of occupancy for either development until the extension of MacDuff Parkway is completed. The plan is for the parkway to be extended to the north to serve both developments and ultimately cross the railroad tracks to reach Old Senoia Road and Ga. Highway 74 North.
The developers have agreed to jointly fund construction of the road, including the costly bridge which would also include room for cart path users. The caveat is that those agreements were signed in more prosperous economic times.
Once MacDuff is complete, developers Brent Scarborough and Roy Stillwell will be allowed to build 650 residential units for an age-restricted “active adult” community. Among those homes are up to 111 “courtyard” homes, another 176 homes on lots 50×120 feet; 186 homes on 60×120-foot lots and 177 homes on 70×120-foot lots.
The Scarborough/Stillwell tract, whose plan was initially proposed by national senior housing builder Levitt and Sons, will include 228 acres of dedicated open space including 120 acres of floodplain, wetlands, streams and associated buffers. That leaves 108 acres of the overall site left as usable open space.
Following the bankruptcy of Levitt in 2008, Scarborough has since pledged to find a company to construct the adult housing community with many if not all of the amenities proposed by Levitt, including a multi-use community clubhouse.
On the 380-acre Wieland tract, the developer has pledged to build 495 detached single-family homes of 1,500 square feet and up. The Wieland plan includes 41.5 acres of usable space that will be dedicated as open space in addition to 109 acres of floodplain, wetlands, streams and associated buffers.
The Wieland “Connector Village” plan includes 56 homes on 55×125 foot lots, 145 homes on 65×125-foot lots, 94 homes on 75×300-foot lots, 140 homes on 90×135-foot lots, 30 homes on 100×150-foot lots and 30 homes on 115×200-foot lots.
When Wieland proposed the subdivision, it included a number of amenities including a pool, clubhouse, tot lot playground, tennis courts, pocket parks, walking paths and nature trails.
