A joint meeting

of the Tyrone and Peachtree City councils Thursday helped reveal plenty

of common ground where the two municipalities can help each other.

For instance,

mayors Bob Lenox and Sheryl Lee will work together to meet with Fairburn's

mayor on the future growth of that community and lobby for transportation

needs with such agencies as the Atlanta Regional Commission.

"We all

realize that South Fulton is going to explode once they get a handle on

their education system," said Peachtree City Councilman Robert Brooks.

Also, the Tyrone

and Peachtree City planning commissions will work together on a future

project for Braelinn Baptist Church, which plans to build a worship campus

on a 90-acre tract which rests partially in both jurisdictions. It was

suggested that the site could be served by Peachtree City's sewer system

for environmental purposes.

"We don't

want to see that on a septic system," said Tyrone Councilman Paul

Letourneau.

Most of the

hour-long meeting was devoted to the sharing of information relating to

development. Tyrone learned about Peachtree City's plans to develop what

property is left on the west side.

But the majority

of the discussion was in Tyrone's court as the council and Town Manager

Barry Amos presented several items, including their plans to control development

along Ga. Highway 74 and purchase sewer access from Fairburn.

The sewer deal

doesn't mean that development will "bust open" along Hwy. 74,

said Tyrone Councilman Ronnie Cameron. Amos explained that the city only

secured the sewer service for three major developments: a 292-home subdivision

for John Wieland Homes, an office park and possibly Sandy Creek High School

if that's necessary in the future.

The city decided

to link up with Fairburn's sewer after it lost a lawsuit with John Wieland

Homes that allowed the developer to build a separate wastewater treatment

system just for that subdivision, Amos said. Under that proposal, the

homeowners association would be responsible for funding the operation

and maintenance of that system.

But council

worried that the system might break down in the future, and John Wieland

Homes eventually agreed to have the project tied in to Fairburn's sewer

system, which is in the planning stages, Cameron said.

The developers

are paying the entire cost of bringing the sewer service from Fairburn

to Tyrone, Amos added. The city has only contracted for a capacity of

250,000 gallons per day, he said.

"We are

just a customer of Fairburn," Amos said.

Lenox said

that in the future Peachtree City might find itself with more sewer capacity

than it needs, and then it's possible that its sewer services could be

offered to Tyrone if necessary.

As for the

potential development along the Hwy. 74 corridor, Tyrone has a strict

set of guidelines specifically in place for that area. The guidelines

call for 60-foot landscaped buffers from the highway's right-of-way and

all outside finish construction to be at least 80 percent brick veneer

or glass.

"I don't

want to see a lot of subdivisions along the highway," Letourneau

said.

The remaining

undeveloped land on Hwy. 74 North in Peachtree City will likely be changed

from industrial zoning to office-institutional, said Jim Williams, the

city's director of developmental services. The city will also be looking

to put a fire station up there to serve the western area of the city,

Williams added.