new day care center is set to go on Ga. Highway

54 just west of downtown.

Magnolia

Park Day Care, on East Lanier Avenue between

Grady Avenue and Braxton Court, received Fayette

Planning Commission approval last week for its

development plans.

Commission

members expressed concern about plans to have

playgrounds both in the front and rear of the

center, but developers said that's necessary to

separate different age groups.

They

promised to plant more trees and shrubs in the

required buffer areas, and noted that the

building will be below street level and barely

visible. Also, developers promised to use green

and brown colors for the playground equipment, as

opposed to bright, highly visible colors.

Developers

left it up to the commission to decide whether

they should use all brick on the building's

exterior, or a combination of brick and siding.

City planner Maurice Ungara pointed out that the

center is in the city's Main Street district, and

most of the homes in the area have siding, not

brick.

But

commissioners said they like brick, and voted 3-1

for it. Commission member Segis Lipscomb voted

against the motion. "Everything around town

is becoming red brick," she said.

"We've got enough red brick."

Commissioners

also approved a preliminary plat for tract two,

phase one of Highland Park subdivision off South

Jeff Davis Drive.

Planned

are 16 homes on 11.93 acres. The plat is for a

portion of an already approved subdivision.

Jeff

Betsill Homes received commission approval of a

variance, letting the company off the hook for a

surveying error that left a home in Pecan Ridge

8.5 feet closer to the street than city

ordinances allow.

"It's

really of no impact to anybody," said acting

Chairman Kevin Bittinger, after staff pointed out

that the house is about the same distance from

the street as other homes in the subdivision.

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