The Peachtree City Planning Commission and Fayette

County Board of Education are still unable to resolve their

engineering differences over rearranging traffic at Booth Middle School,

but they're trying.

At Monday's planning commission meeting, Wes Saunders

and Geraldine Holt were asked to meet with board officials and

city staff to try to come to an agreement. Development director

Jim Williams said that "there was some confusion" over the

intent of the commission at the Aug. 10 meeting, when a driveway

rearrangement for the school was discussed.

Apparently, Williams said, board facilities director

Mike Satterfield had come away from the meeting thinking that the

commission had agreed to leaving the existing driveway alone,

construction of a 20-foot barrier south of the present drive, and

then building a 28-foot bus drive south of the barrier. When asked,

the planning commissioners said they had intended to convey that

the barrier begin on the southernmost side of the present drive,

leaving two lanes for in-and-out vehicle traffic, and that the bus drive

then be built to the south. Bringing the bus drive nearer the present

exit would minimize any increase in the median break along

Peachtree Parkway, commission chairman Bill Foley said.

Satterfield said after the Aug. 10 meeting that the plan conveyed

to him and the school board engineer after the Aug. 10 meeting was

not acceptable to the engineer. Without further agreements, he

said, the buses would have to use the existing drive along with

personal vehicles, though part of the intent of reconstruction around

Booth was to separate the two types of traffic.

Saunders said "if you'd been there this morning (opening

day of school), you would have seen the confusion" at the

entrance-exit road. He said that he and Holt are looking forward to resolving

the dilemma as soon as possible.

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