Both the Peachtree

City Council and the Peachtree City Planning Commission are opposing an

80-acre commercial development that has been proposed for Ga. Highway

74 south adjacent to the city limits.

Starr's Mill

LLC wants to build a shopping center and offices on the property, which

would be located across from Wilshire Pavilion, another retail center

that will contain a Publix grocery store. The company wants the change

the zoning of the land from the current agricultural-residential designation

to a combination of community commercial and office institutional.

The Fayette

County Planning Commission recommended that the rezoning be denied, but

the County Commission tabled it since the plan was changed when a church

location was deleted from the original drawings. That land will be included

in the land the company wants to donate for open space. The rezoning request

will be taken up again by the county Planning Commission before the County

Commission acts on it again.

Starr's Mill

LLC originally proposed a 55,000-square-foot grocery store along with

117,000 square feet of other shops and restaurants on 26 of the 80 acres.The

rest of the land would be used for parking, buffers and a drain field

for a septic system to serve the project, since it won't likely be hooked

up to the city's sewer system.

The proposal

includes donation of land for soccer fields to be used by the county.

Representatives of Starr's Mill have expressed concerns about developing

the land for residential use, citing that it would overburden the school

system.

The Peachtree

City Planning Commission voted at its meeting Monday to draft a letter

to the Fayette County Commission urging that they deny the rezoning. Several

planning commission members and city council members also plan to attend

the Nov. 2 county commission meeting to oppose the project.

Jim Williams,

Peachtree City's director of developmental services, told the city planning

commission that the area can't support the Wilshire Pavilion development

across the road in the city limits and Starr's Mill's proposed development.