A major

development planned for the proposed Line Creek Parkway

is among the items slated for discussion at Monday

night's regular Peachtree City Planning Commission

meeting.

Developers

of a 396-unit apartment complex will present their

conceptual site plan for approval at the meeting. The

issue was tabled at the last meeting.

The

apartments are planned for the east side of the parkway,

near its starting point at Ga. Highway 54. Phase one of

the road has been approved, stretching approximately

1,200 feet north from Hwy. 54, across from the Days Inn

west of Ga. Highway 74.

A cluster

home development consisting of about 218 lots is planned

for the tract bordering the apartments on the north. The

first phase of the parkway will end near the entrance to

the cluster home subdivision.

Grading has

begun for the parkway, which is currently planned to

extend to the city limits. There has been talk of

eventually stretching the road farther north and east to

Hwy. 74, across the railroad tracks, but that would

require annexing land into the city and is far in the

future, if it is ever done at all.

If

approved, the apartment complex will sit on about 27

acres, some of which is considered wetlands. If the

conceptual site plan is approved, the developers will

have to deal with wetland issues at the state and federal

level, according to city planner David Rast.

Bordering

the apartments on the south would be an access road

connecting Line Creek Parkway with several commercial

lots backing up to Hwy. 54. Those are still in the

planning stages, as RAM Development wants the city to let

it also develop the west corner lot where the highway and

the parkway meet, next to Wynnmeade subdivision.

That area

was designated as open space in the settlement agreement

reached a few years ago ending litigation related to the

site, according to an opinion by city attorneys. The

Planning Commission nixed the idea of developing that

corner, but the developers can plead their case to the

City Council.

It was the

litigation that brought about the apartments in the first

place. A previous city ordinance allowed apartments in

commercial zonings, but the city went to court and fought

a huge apartment development planned for the area. This

396-unit complex is a portion of what was allowed as a

result of the settlement.

Other items

on the Planning Commission agenda Monday night include

conceptual site plans for the Nelson office building at

Petrol Point and Tivoli Garden, and the Burger

King/convenience store at Hwy. 74 and Aberdeen Parkway.

A public

hearing is scheduled for a requested rezoning for tract A

of the Robinson Neighborhood Center.

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