Fayetteville's

government has started the process of rezoning a

small parcel of land to a residential category,

which would reverse an earlier decision to change

its zoning to office-institutional.

First

reading of an ordinance reverting the zoning is

on the City Council agenda for Monday night, with

a work session scheduled tonight to discuss the

matter.

Council

rezoned a small portion of the Landrum property

on Ga. Highway 54 east of town to O-I after an

agent for the owners said the plan was to operate

an accounting office in a small house on the

land.

But

city manager Mike Bryant said the city has cited

the owners twice since the rezoning because they

are parking dump trucks and other vehicles on the

site, and that's not allowed under the new

zoning.

The

owners got a restraining order to stop the city

from issuing any more citations until the older

ones are dealt with in court.

City

Council recently voted unanimously to start the

process of reversing their earlier decision and

rezoning the property for residential use.

Also

on the council agenda for tonight's work session

and Monday's meeting will be a resident's

controversial request for a variance to allow a

fence in his back yard, which faces Creekwood

Trail. City ordinances define back yards that

face directly on city streets as legal front

yards, and privacy fences are prohibited in front

yards.

Neighbors

say similar fences, put up before the city had

such an ordinance, detract from the neighborhood.

Council

also might be discussing the long-awaited Village

rezoning request tonight and Monday.

The

city Planning Commission had scheduled a called

meeting last night after press time, and if the

commission voted to recommend approval of the PCD

(planned community development) zoning category,

and use of that category for The Village, council

could act on the request Monday.

The

Village is a proposed mixed use development

including 200 homes, plus retail stores, offices,

a hotel and parks on 110 acres at Ga. Highway 54

and Tiger Trail.

plan for the development was hammered out in

concert between developer Bob Rolader and a

committee of city leaders seeking to master-plan

large, undeveloped tracts in Fayetteville.

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