Home Depot

will be calling Peachtree City home, but nobody knows yet

exactly where it will be.

The home

and garden retail giant is considering two locations and,

with controversy swirling over one of them, a plan is

scheduled to be presented to the Planning Commission at

its regular meeting Monday night.

The first

phase of the proposed development of the Huddleston

property, on Ga. Highway 54 near Line Creek Parkway, is

up for conceptual site plan approval at this meeting.

The front

20 or so acres of the 43-acre site would contain the Home

Depot under the plan submitted by RAM Development. Also

on the drawing board for the back of the property is a

Wal-Mart superstore, but that is not part of the first

phase.

This comes

amid considerable debate on how to handle traffic in the

already snarled corridor surrounding the intersection of

highways 54 and 74. A traffic impact ordinance has been

suggested, as has a possible building moratorium for the

area.

The City

Council was scheduled to discuss the traffic issue

further last night. But developers and their attorneys

have made it known in no uncertain terms that they

believe projects in the works now are immune from any

future ordinances related to traffic, and they consider

all of their legal options if their projects are stopped.

Meanwhile,

Home Depot has been planning a store in the Kedron

Village area near Kroger for some time now. That project

is already in the engineering stage, according to city

officials.

While it is

almost certain that there will not be two Home Depot

stores in Peachtree City, there has been no indication

yet that either site is favored over the other, and both

are apparently proceeding as planned, for the time being.

City staff

has some concerns about the Huddleston proposal which

will be addressed before the Planning Commission. Those

are mainly related to the layout of the 130,000-sq. ft.

center, such as Home Depot's typical building style and

outdoor displays.

Other

agenda items slated for this Planning Commission meeting

include conceptual site plans for the Barrow retail

center at Hwy. 74 and Wisdom Road, Southeast Properties'

site on Hwy. 74 South, and renovations to the Bank of

America at Glenloch and Hwy. 54.

Two new

Planning Commission members will be introduced at the

meeting, and a new chairman and vice chairman will be

elected.