Rezoning requests

dominate the agenda for Thursday's Fayette County Commission meeting,

and most of the requests are expected to have opposition.

High on the

list is Starr's Mill LLC's plan for a shopping center on 80 acres south

of Peachtree City. (related story, page 1A)

In addition

to the rezoning requests, commissioners will have the second of three

public hearings on proposed property tax rates and will discuss the county

jail construction project.

The commission's latest

plan for collecting impact fees for the jail was rejected last week by

the Tyrone Town Council, while Fayetteville, Brooks and Woolsey plan to

discuss the plan in their October meetings. Peachtree City has already

approved it.

Commissioners

Thursday will discuss whether to alter the impact fee plan to satisfy

Tyrone council members' objection to a fee of more than $4,000 for retail

businesses smaller than 10,000 square feet.

Rezoning requests:

Integrated

Science and Engineering is seeking R-50 zoning, which allows one-acre

lots with homes as small as 2,100 square feet, for 42.3 acres on New Hope

Road. The county Planning Commission followed a staff recommendation and

is recommending R-72 zoning instead, which requires minimum two-acre lots.

The land is currently zoned A-R (agricultural-residential), which requires

five-acre lots.

If the County

Commission goes along with the planning panel's recommendation, the resulting

subdivision will have about 20 lots instead of the 31 requested. As currently

zoned (agricultural-residential), it could have only about seven or eight

homes on five-acre lots.

Residents with

property adjoining the proposed subdivision on all four sides expressed

opposition to the R-50 request. Charley Reagan, who said he has no plans

to ever sell his ten acres on the west side of the ISE property, argued

for leaving the zoning at A-R.

But Joel Lindsey,

who owns land to the south, said the two-acre lots allowed under R-72

"would be more suitable to what I think is going to develop in the

future."

Starr's Mill

LLC wants community commercial zoning for 80 acres at Ga. Highway 74 and

Redwine Road. The request drew a unanimous "no" vote from the

Planning Commission (see related story).

Curtis Burton

is asking for R-45, which allows one-acre lots, for a 36-lot subdivision

on 55 acres on Ga. Highway 279. The Planning Commission unanimously voted

to recommend approval, angering a group of about 20 neighbors who showed

up to argue against it.

"It's

really overpopulated as it is right now," said Don Mabry, who lives

in nearby Lafayette Estates. "Traffic is really terrible there."

George Curreri,

Brian Curreri and Beverly Koumoulas had requested that a 1.9-acre building

lot be removed from Fayette Villa Estates, on Ga. Highway 54 at Brittany

Way, and its zoning changed to O-I (office-institutional). But the owners

have asked that the request be withdrawn after the Planning Commission

unanimously recommended denial.

Owners W.

R. Clifton and D. B. Scroggins Jr. are requesting R-45 zoning for a one-acre

tract on Hewell Road. They said they want to put a single home on the

land. The Planning Commission recommended approval.

The County

Commission will meet at 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex.