Curious

Tyrone residents may want to make the trek to

town hall Thursday night to get a glimpse at a

possible new subdivision for the town.

Joel

Cowan Jr. is asking the town's planning

commission to rezone approximately 287 acres near

the Windsong subdivision from its current

category of a two acre building lot to a one acre

minimum.

Town

manager Barry Amos said Cowan's plan calls for

building 169 houses on the tract located between

Ashland Trail and Line Creek on the town's

western border.

Since

the site features some wetlands and a lake, the

buildable area would only accommodate 169

building sites, Amos said.

Cowan

is also asking the planning commission for a land

map use amendment that would designate the

property residential, instead of its current

agricultural and forest listing.

If

the name of the applicant sounds familiar to you,

it should. Cowan is the son of Georgia Regional

Transportation Authority chairman and Peachtree

City founder Joel Cowan. GRTA was established by

Gov. Roy Barnes to find a solution to the

gridlock gripping the Atlanta region, and the

senior Cowan is a proponent of quality

development that will fit into a comprehensive

traffic plan for the region.

Thursday

night's planning commission meeting starts at 7

p.m. at Tyrone's town hall.

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