Forget about the potential resurrection of the TDK Boulevard Extension from Peachtree City into Coweta County.
A land swap brokered between the city council and the Fayette County Commission will allow the city to retain its trump card to prevent the road from ever being built.
The transaction, unanimously approved by council Jan. 5 after executive session, gives the city a strip of land running along Line Creek that will allow it to prevent the road extension from ever being built.
The swap also will give the county what it needs: access to the dam and amenities at the under-construction Lake McIntosh reservoir.
Prior to the land swap, there was such an impasse between the city and the county that the Fayette County Commission authorized legal proceedings to condemn the city tract that was necessary for the lake access. But cooler heads ultimately prevailed on the matter.
The road extension project was by city and county officials who worried it would flood Hwy. 74 south with cars from a proposed mini-city that had been approved by Coweta officials. The McIntosh Village plan called for 3,100 homes and 600,000 square feet of retail on 1,558 acres east of the southern end of Peachtree City and north of Senoia.
Some worried that the new retail would siphon customers away from Peachtree City stores, while others counter that the 3,100 homes would drive more traffic to Peachtree City businesses.
The 650-acre Lake McIntosh will stretch just south of Ga. Highway 54 West and north of Falcon Field Airport. It will be located along Line Creek though most of the land is in the jurisdiction of Coweta County. The land was purchased back in the 1970s and is owned by Fayette County.
