Conceptual

site plans for two retail developments in Peachtree City

-- including one that will have a Publix grocery store --

were approved by the Planning Commission at its regular

meeting Monday.

One of the

projects, Holly Grove Pavilion, is a retail center that

will include a Publix grocery store, located at the

intersection of Ga. Highway 74 and Holly Grove Road,

which is one-half mile west of Rockaway Road. No other

stores for the center have been signed, according to a

spokesperson for Columbia Properties, the developer of

the project.

The other

retail center, Peachtree Promenade, will be located at

the intersection of Ga. Highway 54 and Shakerag Hill.

The

conceptual site plans for both projects were approved by

the commission as long as developers meet a set of

individual conditions for each property.

The

approval of the Holly Grove Pavilion conceptual site plan

included city-recommended changes approved by the

developer. Those changes included additional landscaping

and cutting a row of parking spaces from the entrance off

Holly Grove Road to create a less congested entrance.

The

drawings for the conceptual site plan were also changed

to reduce the number of entrances from Ga. Highway 74 to

two. It was also noted that the store could not open

until Holly Grove Road is completed.

According

to the preliminary site plan, a traffic light will be

proposed for the intersection of Holly Grove Road and

Highway 74.

The

approval of the site conceptual plan for Peachtree

Promenade was not as simple.

Some

commission members expressed hesitancy to approve the

plan since the recent changes were not fully drawn out.

Rather, an overlay was designed to fit over the original

conceptual site plan.

"I'm

just not comfortable voting on something that's not a

final conceptual site plan," said commission member

Robert Ames.

Bill Dyer

of Riverwood Properties, the developer of the project,

said he agreed to the changes proposed by staff, and a

delay on the decision could hurt the project. He said if

he would have known the commission wanted to see a final

plan, he would have had one ready.

City

Planner David Rast said he directed Dyer to use an

overlay instead of compiling the final conceptual site

plan. Riverwood agreed to add more landscaping to the

design and reduce the number of parking spaces in the

rear of the structure, which would eventually face a

second phase of the project that might become medical

offices, Dyer said.

The

commission eventually approved the plan on a 3-2 vote.

Ames and Jim Finney voted against the approval.

The

Planning Commission also approved a conceptual site plan

for Powers Storage Facility on Huddleston Road. The

owner, Tim Powers, told the commission he wanted to pave

the area which he currently uses as a parking lot to

store tractor trailers.

Powers said

he also wanted to fence the area in and install a

security camera. He noted that unauthorized dumpings have

taken place on the property, most recently when some

construction materials were left there.

He also

said the land has been vandalized several times.

The

planning commission also approved the landscape plan for

the Wendy's restaurant that is currently under

construction at the Kedron Village retail center. Despite

the water restrictions imposed by the drought, restaurant

officials decided to proceed with the landscaping The

city had offered to delay the activity until fall as long

as the company provides a letter promising to landscape

the site.

Since the

landscaping will continue, the city will require a letter

from Wendy's promising to replace the plants if they die

due to the drought.