The

proposed annexation of the West Village area will

be discussed at Thursday night's Peachtree City

Council meeting.

Also,

council is expected to decide whether to overturn

a Planning Commission decision to deny a concept

plan that was submitted for the proposed Wal-Mart

Superstore.

The

West Village discussion will likely crop up

during council's consideration of a rezoning

application from John Wieland Homes that involves

land which could become a part of the West

Village area. Mayor Bob Lenox said council is not

prepared to make a decision to annex or not, but

the topic was added to the agenda to insure

council could discuss the annexation proposal as

it relates to the rezoning request.

Wieland

has requested that the 101-acre tract, known as

the Katz property, be rezoned from General

Industrial to General Residential 4.

The

company wants to build 350 single-family homes on

the property. The land is bordered on the south

subdivision, which will have approximately 200

homes on 63 acres.

Council

has been scheduled to vote on the rezoning

several times, but each time the matter has been

postponed. Most recently, Wieland offered to

postpone the decision to await a decision from

the West Village Task Force, which voted 10-5

last week to begin negotiations with developers

to determine whether the property could be

developed like the task force wants.

The

Wal-Mart matter is largely based on the expected

traffic that the superstore would generate. The

Planning Commission denied the concept plan for

the proposed superstore at its July 24 meeting

upon a recommendation by city staff that the

store could not meet the city's traffic

ordinance. The ordinance requires developers to

fund traffic improvements for projects that might

hurt traffic in the area, but the city's traffic

consultants say no improvements could be made by

the developer that would help.

The

store would meet the traffic ordinance after Ga.

Highway 54 is widened, but there is no definite

time line for the start of the process.

The

Wal-Mart would be situated behind the planned

Home Depot on Hwy. 54 across from the entrance to

Planterra Ridge subdivision.

The

developer of the project, RAM Development,

contends that the project is not governed by the

traffic ordinance, because plans for the store

were submitted before the ordinance was passed by

council.

Doug

McMurrain of RAM Development said the company's

position is that the store would meet the traffic

ordinance anyway. But that's using the numbers

from RAM's traffic consultants.

The

traffic numbers from the city's study are a

little higher, McMurrain said.

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