A conceptual

site plan for a two-phase expansion of Holy Trinity Catholic Church was

unanimously approved by the Peachtree City Planning Commission at its

regular meeting Monday night.

The commission

also approved a conceptual site plan for Rinnai, a Japanese company that

plans to import gas appliances and distribute them from a local warehouse.

The Holy Trinity

plan calls for the construction of a 16,700-square-foot religious education

building and a new 7,500-square-foot rectory. A new driveway will also

be built connecting the church campus to an adjacent office building it

plans to buy.

The new rectory,

driveway and a 1,000-square-foot expansion of the current rectory would

take place soon while the educational building would possibly be built

in the next three to five years, said Don Cobb of Cobb and Associates

Architects.

Several planning

commissioners said they liked the plan since it would alleviate traffic

on Walt Banks Road. Vehicles would be able to use the new driveway to

get to Prime Point for access to Ga. Highway 54.

The proposed

Rinnai facility will be located on International Drive adjacent to a portion

of the Planterra Ridge golf course. The building will include 6,000 square

feet of office space and 19,200 square feet of warehouse space with room

to expand the warehouse in the future if necessary.

City Planner

David Rast said the developers would need to work with city staff to resolve

several more issues about the concept plan. One of those issues is the

placement of the employee drive, which the city contends should be closer

to the warehouse to preserve more of the natural vegetation that exists

on the site.

The company

plans to sell products such as space heaters, room heaters and water heaters

that run on both natural and propane gas, a spokesman told the planning

commission.

The planning

commission also approved landscape plans for Merrick Trace (Summit) Apartments

on MacDuff Parkway, the Black Oak Properties office building off south

Peachtree Parkway near Robinson Road and the new Peachtree City Police

Department Headquarters on Hwy. 74 South.