The

conceptual site plan for the proposed Home Depot on Ga.

Highway 54 West was tabled once again by the Peachtree

City Planning Commission at this week's meeting, but city

officials say that there has apparently been some

progress.

The plan

was originally tabled because the commission determined

that a complete application had not been submitted. It

has since been resubmitted, and all requested information

is now included, city staff said.

Work is

continuing on an overall landscape concept to include the

first phase of the development (the Home Depot section)

and the buffer area next to the commercial outparcels

along the highway. The plan "appears to be moving in

the right direction," according to city staff. The

applicant, RAM Development, has also prepared a traffic

impact study and forwarded it to the city's traffic

consultant for review. Once that is done, a mitigation

plan will be prepared.

If nothing

is done traffic-wise at the site, city development

director Jim Williams said Monday night, the development

of the first phase would obviously drop the traffic

rating there to an `F'. Until RAM representatives meet

with Dames and Moore, the traffic consultants, no

meaningful action can be taken by the Planning

Commission, according to Williams, and this should be

done before the next meeting on Nov. 22.

RAM's Doug

McMurrain said that two meetings had been held with

representatives of the church currently located at the

site, and the church is considering several options

presented by the developers.

McMurrain

stressed that his company has been

"cooperative" and done "a lot of

work" to comply with the city's numerous requests,

but he reiterated his firm's position that the new

traffic impact ordinance does not apply to this project

because the application was made before the ordinance was

passed.

"There's

a lot of work to do in the next couple of weeks,"

said commission chairman Wes Saunders as the vote to

table the plan was made.