It's going

to be a while longer before the Peachtree City Planning

Commission sees a plan for apartments on Line Creek

Parkway.

Amid a

number of environmental concerns, the conceptual site

plan for the project was tabled at Monday night's regular

meeting at the recommendation of city staff.

"It

was determined that the proposed configuration of several

buildings and parking areas would have a negative impact

on watershed protection," according to a staff memo.

"The site plan would require the filling of one

existing wetland (approximately 0.528 acres) and

encroachments into several undisturbed buffers adjacent

to other wetland areas."

A map of

the site plan seen before the meeting showed at least two

buildings in the 396-unit complex encroaching into

wetland areas.

The

developers hope to have a revised plan in place in time

for the next meeting Aug. 9, city planner David Rast told

the Planning Commission.

Since a

number of local residents were in attendance because of

this issue, commission chairman Julian Campbell gave them

an opportunity to speak. There was no one present

representing the developers.

Orville

Barber said that the appropriate wetland-related permits

for the project, some of which must come from state and

federal agencies, were not obtained when they should have

been, and the developers are scrambling to do the right

thing now that they have been caught.

Barber said

that he and other concerned citizens are keeping an eye

on the situation and looking for the appropriate

agencies, such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to

help keep them in line on environmental issues.

Campbell

said that his board anxiously awaits word from the Corps

of Engineers on its findings.

The city is

monitoring the development closely and checking all

relevant environmental matters, according to Rast.

Bob Brown

asked if enough consideration had been given to the

traffic situation that he said will worsen considerably

when Line Creek Parkway is opened.

According

to the current plan, the parkway will extend from Ga.

Highway 54 to the city limits - essentially a

dead-end road. Any potential linkage with Ga. Highway 74

would require annexation and is years down the road.

Brown

pointed out that the apartments will bring hundreds more

cars which will all dump onto Hwy. 54 because there would

be only one way in or out.

In other

business, the Planning Commission approved a rezoning

from limited commercial to limited use commercial for the

Robinson Neighborhood Center at the southwest corner of

Peachtree Parkway and Robinson Road.

Developer

Donald Cobb is planning to develop a professional office

building of about 7,200 square feet with an upstairs

apartment of about 1,500 square feet for his own personal

residence. The residential component of the plan is what

required the rezoning.

Cobb said

that nothing from the general street scape will indicate

that there is a residence on the property, and he will be

the live-in landlord at the site, which sits at the edge

of the Braelinn golf course.

City staff

recommended that conditions stipulate only the owner of

the property be the resident, whether it be Cobb or

someone else. If not, the property would revert to the

original zoning, in which case an office could be placed

in the residential space.

Also during

Monday's meeting, a conceptual site plan was approved for

the Nelson office building at Petrol Point and Tivoli

Garden.

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