proposed village style shopping center dominates

Thursday night's agenda for the Tyrone Planning

Commission.

The

commission is set to discuss seven different

rezoning and variance requests for John

Callaway's property, just off Ga. Highway 74.

Callaway

wants to build a shopping center near the current

Town Hall that would feature more than 100,000

square feet of retail development.

His

site is near the intersection of Senoia Road and

Palmetto-Tyrone Road. He believes the site is

ideal to create a village-type development that

would set new standards for development in the

area.

Included

would be a 52,000-sq. ft. grocery store, along

with smaller shops such as ice cream stores and

cafes that would be built along a heavily

landscaped street to give the impression of a

typical village or small town.

There

would be five outparcels on the Hwy. 74 side of

the development that could possibly be used for

fast food restaurants or other small businesses,

but in previous meetings Callaway was adamant

that he would listen to the type of tenants the

town wanted.

"If

you don't want fast food, we won't put one

there," he said.

He

emphasized that he wanted to raise the

architectural standards for this development and

make it a pedestrian-friendly development.

"I

don't want big box development there," he

said.

The

property is currently zoned

agricultural-residential, and the project also

would need a variance, since the town's zoning

does not allow any commercial development over

30,000 square feet.

Callaway

also is seeking a reduction of buffer on the

north side of the property from 20 feet to 10

feet and a reduction on the south side from 75

feet to 25 feet.

The

commission meets at 7 p.m. at Tyrone Town Hall.

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