The rezoning request for the

Katz property will be considered by the Peachtree City Council at its

meeting Wednesday night.

John Wieland Homes has that the zoning category of the 101-acre tract

be changed to general residential from general industrial in anticipation

of locating 300 homes there. The Planning Commission has recommended to

council that the rezoning be denied, largely based on the effects the

development would have on the school system.

City staff had recommended to the Planning Commission that the rezoning

be approved with 10 different conditions. One of those conditions would

have provided a 20-acre school site to the Board of Education on property

next door that's outside the city limits.

Dan Fields of John Wieland Homes told the Planning Commission that the

subdivision would be

marketed to empty nesters, young professionals and some families with

a starting price range around $200,000 per unit. Fields also said the

proposed density of three units per acre is consistent with the city's

land use plan.

One of the conditions requested by city staff included capping the number

of homes that could be built on the property in the city and an additional

80-acre tract that lies just outside the city limits. That would keep

the overall limit at 350 homes.

The city also wants to require a traffic study and a sound and vibration

study, with extra measures taken to reduce the sound and vibration coming

from the railroad tracks that border the Katz property to the east.

The commission also inserted another condition that required banks to

be built at the railroad tracks to contain a potential derailment.