Fayette County

commissioners will consider John Wieland Homes' plan for 14 homes, a recreation

center and a school site for 80.65 acres on the Peachtree City border

Thursday night.

The county

Planning Commission is unanimously recommending approval of the firm's

rezoning request, with three conditions. The County Commission will consider

the request Thursday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex.

The project

is part of the Inverness subdivision being developed by Wieland Homes,

most of it inside Peachtree City. The overall project has 350 homes, including

the county portion. Wieland is offering the Board of Education a 20-acre

site for a future elementary school to serve the area, and plans a 7.3-acre

recreation amenity with a swimming pool, tennis courts and a cabana, to

serve the entire project.

Local activist

Steve Brown is urging the Board of Education and the County Commission

to negotiate with Wieland for a different school site, saying there's

too much traffic around the Inverness site. But thus far the governing

bodies have expressed no interest in the idea, he said.

Recommended

conditions are:

1. Wieland

must build a pedestrian crossing across MacDuff Parkway to provide safe

access for residents to the recreation center.

During the

Planning Commission meeting last month, it was unclear whether the county

will require an underpass, or be content with a striped crossing and three-way

stop, as Wieland representatives requested. Members of the Planning Commission

suggested the company work out details of the crossing with county engineers

before Thursday's meeting.

2. The firm

must maintain a natural 20-foot buffer along MacDuff Parkway, next to

the homes and the recreation area.

3. No residential

lot can have a driveway on MacDuff Parkway.

Planning commissioners

declined to recommend a fourth condition suggested by staff, that the

approval be contingent on an agreement between the county and Peachtree

City providing for the city to render emergency service to the property.

"It's not appropriate for the county to require us to get services

from a municipality," said Wieland Vice President Richard Bacon.

Commissioners

agreed and left the condition out of their recommendation.

Commissioners

also will consider a request from John O. Davis and Bethlehem Baptist

Church to rezone just under a half acre on Kenwood Road from A-R, which

requires minimum five-acre building lots, to R-45, which allows one-acre

lots. The church wants to add the parcel to 4.5 acres it already owns,

to build a new church building.

Both the Planning

Commission and the Zoning Department staff recommended approval.

In addition

to zoning matters, commissioners will discuss revisions to its policies

and procedures for employee disciplinary action and grievances.