Two

vacancies on the Peachtree City Planning Commission were

filled by the City Council at last week's regular

meeting.

Robert W.

Ames and Dr. Richard L. Schumacher will fill posts

vacated by Julian Campbell and Geraldine Holt on the

Peachtree City Planning Commission.

City

Council appointed the new members during its regular

meeting last week.

Campbell's

and Holt's terms expire at the end of this month.

Robert W.

Brown was appointed to serve as an alternate.

Ames is an

architect who has been an alternate for some time now,

while Schumacher served on a similar board in another

community. Brown is a resident of Planterra Ridge who has

participated in a number of issues before the Planning

Commission and the City Council in recent years.

Mayor Bob

Lenox, Councilman Robert Brooks and city manager Jim

Basinger conducted interviews for the positions,

narrowing the group down from 12 finalists.

Both Lenox

and Brooks said that the selection process was difficult,

as all were good candidates.

Meanwhile,

the Planning Commission continues its work throughout

September, with its next regular meeting scheduled for

Monday at 7 p.m. at City Hall.

A pair of

agenda items carried over from last month are the

landscape plans for Peachtree City Distribution Center at

Ga. Highway 74 and Dividend Drive and the practice fields

at McIntosh High School.

The city

reported last week that the school system has recently

stepped up and done a great deal of the work that was

discussed at the last Planning Commission meeting as

being overdue, such as a guard rail along Walt Banks Road

and some improvements on the slopes surrounding the

field.

Eckerd is

scheduled to present its conceptual site plan for its

proposed new location at Ga. Highway 54 and Peachtree

Parkway.

The drug

store chain plans to leave its current location at the

same intersection, in the Peachtree Crossing shopping

center, and move across the highway next door to Ruby

Tuesday, in the space formerly occupied by Morrison's. A

new building will likely be constructed there for Eckerd.

First Union

Bank at Kedron Village is also expected to present a

conceptual site plan Monday, and the final item on the

agenda as of Wednesday was a conceptual site plan for the

Riley Field track/football complex on Wisdom Road.