Fayetteville’s City Council took a wait and see approach Thursday night to a controversial zoning that had riled up the community last year.
In March, 2015, the city agreed to rezone a five-acre tract on the southside of Ga. Highway 54 east from C-3, highway commercial, to RMF-15, residential multi-family, to the owners of the Cobblestone Apartments who wanted to put 33 townhomes on the site.
Since no development has occurred on the property in 18 months, the city’s ordinance allows the zoning to be reverted to the old classification.
Acting planning director Jahnee Prince explained the options to the council and said the new owner of the property had just purchased it and did not object to it being reverted.
Prince explained that she was new to this issue, but felt leaving the zoning for townhomes would have much less of an impact on the surrounding area.
“That’s just a nice stepdown and a less intensive zoning than C-3,” she said.
City Councilman Jim Williams suggested the city get with the new owners of the property to see what they have planned to the property and come back to the City Council in a month with more information. The measure passed unanimously.
