The latest concept plan for

the new John Wieland Homes subdivision on the Katz property in Peachtree

City includes 110 town homes.

As a result, the City Council

will decide Thursday night whether to lift the city's multifamily housing

moratorium for the project.

Dan Fields of John Wieland

Homes said the new concept plan is responding to a wish from council that

the subdivision have more open space and park areas.

"The only way to do that

was to use town homes," Fields said.

The density of the project

has not changed, Fields said. In September, council approved a plan to

have no more than 350 homes on the 101 acres inside the city and an additional

80 acres adjacent to the property that are in unincorporated Fayette County.

The area in question is a part

of what has been called the West Village and lies in the city's northwest

quadrant, north of Ga. Highway 54 and Wynnmeade subdivision and west of

Ga. Highway 74. Efforts to annex the unincorporated area as part of a

larger West Village ignited a firestorm of protest to the City Council

earlier this year and were abandoned.

Later, the council agreed to

rezone the property from general industrial to general residential despite

a recommendation to deny the rezoning from the Planning Commission.

The town homes cover approximately

a third of the proposed subdivision, Fields said.

The price range for the various

homes in the subdivision will start in the high $100,000s up to the low

$400,000s, Fields said.

Developers have asked for city

sewer service for the part inside the city, according to a Water and Sewer

Authority official. The homes in the unincorporated portion will remain

unsewered and on septic tanks, Larry Turner, general manager of the sewer

system, said.

John Wieland Homes hopes to

have the first homes occupied in the spring of 2002.

The land also includes a school

site which the Fayette County Board of Education could use to build an

elementary school to serve the new subdivision and surrounding area.

Fields said he wanted to bring

the concept plan back before council to make sure council members are

aware of the new changes.