Southern

Community Bank

can move ahead with its plans for a

two-story, 14,000-sq. ft. headquarters building

at the corner of North Jeff Davis Drive and

Jefferson Avenue, but the bank will be lacking 11

parking spaces that were part of its original

plans.

Fayetteville's

Planning Commission last week voted unanimously,

with one abstention, to approve the latest

development plans for the bank. The new plans

satisfy commission insistence on saving as many

large oak and pecan trees as possible.

Saving

five more large trees at the front of the

2.08-acre site will require moving the building

farther south than architects originally had

planned, encroaching on the required 40-foot

buffer between the bank and Carriage Chase, a

neighborhood next door on Jefferson Avenue.

Not

knowing exactly how much the building and parking

lot would encroach on the buffer, planners had

asked the commission for a reduction in the

buffer from 40 feet to zero. Last week, armed

with more information, the commission approved a

variance in the buffer, reducing it by five feet

at one point and 30 feet at the rear of the bank

property, though that portion won't be paved.

Commissioners

also approved a variance to allow some of the

parking in front of the building, along North

Jeff Davis, but disallowed 11 parking spaces

right next to the street.

The

Planning Commission also approved two new office

complexes, one on Devant Street and one on Jeff

Davis.

Approval

of Executive Park, a 57-unit complex at Devant

and Ginger Cake Road, carries the condition that

a dumpster enclosure be masonry rather than wood.

Johnson Properties will build the complex of 10

buildings on 7.6 acres. The 67,368 square feet of

offices will be divided into units ranging from

1,200 to 5,100 square feet.

Robert

Rolader's plan for the Ted Brown Office Park,

five new office buildings on Jeff Davis across

from Kathi Avenue, will be phased in, depending

upon how fast tenants are found for the units.

Planning

Commission members said that's fine, but they

conditioned their approval on landscaping the

first phase so that it has a "finished"

appearance.

When

completed, the project will have 23,000 square

feet of office space in five two-story buildings

on a 2.77-acre site.

During

their regular business meeting last week,

commissioners also approved:

� A special exception to allow

Dave Dail's Tire and Auto Service at 105 Banks

Station. Dail will build the facility in the open

space next to Stevi B's Pizza at the south end of

the shopping center.

� Development plans for a

4,143-sq. ft. addition to Wal-Mart's garden shop.

The plan would require relocating a landscaping

island and moving the fire lane.

� A preliminary plat for

Argonne Forest, a 152-home subdivision and

17-acre office park at New Hope Road and Ga.

Highway 314 north of town.

City

Council last month approved annexation and

rezoning for the 144-acre project, with the

stipulation that the site plan submitted with the

rezoning application be used as the actual plat

for the subdivision. Developer Bob Rolader said

at a recent work session that the plan being

presented is unchanged from the one presented to

council.

� Development plans and

elevations for Shops at Fayette Pavilion,

including a 5,000-sq. ft. Men's Wearhouse. The

freestanding building will finish up phase two of

the center with Men's Wearhouse and four

additional shops, one 3,500 square feet, one

1,500 and two 1,200 square feet.

The

building will match existing buildings at the

Pavilion, said Mike Brown of Powers and Merritt,

architects.

� Revised development plans

for an addition to the BellSouth building at Lee

Street and Glynn Street. The Planning Commission

had previously approved a plan that would match

the roof line of the old section to that of the

new section.

Architects

asked to revise that plan to allow a wing wall

separating the old and new sections, with

different roof materials for the two. Approval

passed 3-2, with commissioners Kevin Bittinger

and Myron Coxe opposed.

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