controversial rezoning request that would allow a

61-home subdivision on 155 acres on Goza Road is

back on the agenda for Thursday's Fayette County

Commission meeting.

Thomas

Busey has asked that the zoning of the parcel, at

Goza and old Greenville roads, be changed from

agricultural, which requires a minimum of

five-acre lots, to a residential category that

allows lots as small as two acres.

The

county Planning Commission had unanimously

recommended denial of the request after residents

of nearby neighborhoods spoke in opposition,

saying most of the property surrounding the site

is zoned for five-acre and larger estates.

Staff

recommended that the request be denied, but that

the commission rezone the property for minimum

three-acre lots.

Becky

Morris of Integrated Science, engineers for the

proposed subdivision, asked for and received

postponement of the commission vote, saying the

firm wants to make some changes to incorporate

more green space into the neighborhood.

Commissioners

warned her that any significant changes will

require starting over again in the rezoning

process.

The

group will have a public hearing and vote on the

request at its regular meeting Thursday at 7 p.m.

at the County Administrative Complex.

Also

on the agenda will be further discussion of

whether the Dorsey House on Long Avenue,

considered historically significant by local

historians, should be torn down or preserved.

The

house is in the way of the county's plans to

build a new jail and court complex on 65 acres

between Lee Street and Jimmie Mayfield Boulevard.

Disposition

of three other houses on Long Avenue also will be

discussed.

Packaged

beer and wine sales permits for American Star

Foods Inc. on Sandy Creek Road and for Coleman's

Grocery on Ga. Highway 92 north also will be

considered.

On

the commission's consent agenda is a bid award of

$528,430 for two fire engines and a tanker, to

Central States Fire Apparatus.