Fayetteville

residents will be limited to three garage sales

per year if the City Council agrees with the

Planning Commission's recommendation.

But

residents won't have to worry much about the new

law unless their neighbors complain. The

commission is recommending no requirement that

residents get a permit for each sale.

Commissioners

also are recommending that each sale be limited

to three consecutive days.

Complaints

that some residents conduct yard sales so much of

the time that they are essentially operating

retail businesses at home prompted discussion of

the idea of limiting the sales during a recent

Planning Commission work session.

"Most

[cities] limit them to two or three garage sales

a year," city planner Todd Miller told the

commission.

Some

cities also require that residents buy permits

for each garage sale, so the city can keep up

with how many each resident has, but

commissioners said they don't want to burden

staff with the permitting process.

"We're

going to know who the chief offenders are,"

said commission member Kevin Bittinger.

"We're going to know where to look."

The

proposed rule is expected to go to City Council

for a first reading during its July 19 meeting,

along with two other new ordinance

recommendations. "That way, they can do them

all at one time," said planning director

Jahnee Prince.

The

other proposals are:

� An ordinance prohibiting the

operation of professional psychics in the city.

After a New York psychic expressed an interest in

moving to Fayetteville and asked which zoning

category would be suitable, the Planning

Commission discussed the possibility of including

psychic services in zoning categories allowing

entertainment, but eventually decided to prohibit

them altogether.

� A new zoning category for

office developments in the Fayette Community

Hospital area. Faced with a growing number of

requests for annexation and zoning for offices

along Sandy Creek Road and Ga. Highway 54 near

the hospital, city officials decided the area

needs its own development standards.

If

the proposals are presented according to schedule

July 19, council can act on them at its next

meeting, Aug. 2, 7 p.m. at City Hall.

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