Integrated

Science and Engineering will get no help from the

Fayette County Planning Commission in its quest

to build a 61-home subdivision on 155 acres on

Goza Road at Old Greenville Road.

After

hearing from protesting neighbors, the Planning

Commission Thursday unanimously voted to

recommend denial of the request to rezone the

property from A-R, which requires five-acre lots,

to R-75, which allows two-acre lots.

Among

residents who oppose the change in zoning are two

families that recently asked for rezoning so they

could split their land between more family

members, and were denied.

"My

son was going to build on four and a half

acres," said David Richardson, "and we

had to make different arrangements and provide

him with five acres." The county should be

consistent and deny this request as well, he

said.

Jean

Allen told a similar story, echoing the same

sentiment.

Scott

Bodkin, presenting the subdivision plan for ISE,

said the plan is not contrary to the county's

land use plan for the Goza Road area. "The

density is .42 units per acre, and that's within

the current land use plan," he said.

But

Planning Commission Chairman Bob Harbison pointed

out that the land use plan calls for a range

between two-acre and five-acre lots for the

general area.

He

said in this case, the proposed subdivision site

is surrounded by estates with five acres or more.

Commission

member Fred Bowen agreed. "Even three acres

[per lot] dramatically changes the nature of the

area," he said. "Five acres certainly

is in keeping with the residences in the area.

The

group unanimously agreed, recommending denial of

the petition.

The

County Commission will consider the request at

its Aug. 26 regular business meeting, 7 p.m. at

the County Administrative Complex.

Also

on the agenda will be:

� David and Ruthie Gryboski's

request to rezone just under an acre on Ga.

Highway 54 from A-R to O-I

(office-institutional). Audrey Massey, real

estate agent for Gryboski, said Gryboski wants to

convert the rental house on the property to a

medical office building. Gryboski has a practice

in digestive disorders and liver problems, and is

on staff at Fayette Community Hospital, she said.

Planning

commissioners unanimously recommended approval.

� Larry Mayfield's request to

rezone 4.9 acres on Hwy. 54 from R-70

(residential) to O-I for a medical office

building. The land is just west of Fayette

Community Hospital. Dr. Gerald Goldklang wants to

move his cancer and blood disorders practice to

the property, said Massey, also the agent for

Mayfield.

Planning

commissioner Fred Bowen said he has been to

Goldklang's current office and has been impressed

with the surroundings. "He's been able to

make those visits as pleasant as possible,"

he said. Commissioners unanimously recommended

approval of the rezoning.

� Sarah Rivers' request to

rezone her 184-acre farm on Sandy Creek Road from

R-70 to A-R. The Fayette County government is the

petitioner on Rivers' behalf. The land was

rezoned to R-70 in a mass rezoning in the 1970s,

and Rivers asked for the change so her family can

have a new pole barn on the farm. The Planning

Commission recommended approval.

Several

changes to county zoning ordinances, including

new architectural standards for land along Ga.

Highway 74. Just over two tenths of a mile on

Hwy. 74 lies in Fayette County outside the Tyrone

town limits, and the changes will provide for an

office park setting in keeping with Tyrone's

special standards for the area.

The

Planning Commission unanimously recommended

approval .

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