John Wieland Homes will go

before the Fayette County Planning Commission Thursday with a rezoning

request for the county portion of a much larger Peachtree City subdivision.

The commission meets at 7 p.m.

Thursday at the County Administrative Complex.

Fourteen homes on two-acre

lots, plus a 7.3-acre recreation center to serve the entire Inverness

subdivision and a 20-acre elementary school site are included in the plan

for 80.65 acres on a planned extension of MacDuff Parkway.

Wieland is asking that the

property's zoning be changed from A-R, which requires a minimum of five

acres per home, to R-75, which allows two-acre home sites and requires

that homes be at least 2,500 square feet.

As part of the Katz property

in that straddles the Peachtree City limits, the 14 homes would be added

to 336 homes inside Peachtree City to make up the Inverness subdivision.

The Peachtree City Council

is considering lifting a multifamily housing rezoning moratorium this

Thursday to accommodate a John Wieland request for townhomes in the subdivision.

See related story on Page 3A.

A recreation amenity would

include a cabana, tennis courts, a pool and a tot lot.

The Planning Department staff

is recommending approval, with four conditions:

An inter-local agreement must

be approved in which Peachtree City agrees to provide emergency services.

A pedestrian crossing must

be built to provide safe access to the recreation center across MacDuff

Parkway.

Buffers must be included on

MacDuff next to the residential lots and recreation area.

No residential lots may have

direct access to the parkway.

Commissioners also will consider

John Davis' request to change the zoning of four tenths of an acre on

Kenwood Road from A-R to R-45, which allows homes on one-acre lots.

Bethlehem Baptist Church wants

to add the property to its 4.5-acre tract to build a church.

The Planning Commission's recommendations

on the two requests will be passed on to the County Commission for consideration

at its Jan. 25 meeting, 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex.

Planning commissioners also

will consider two preliminary plats: a nine-home subdivision on 23.6 acres

on Ga. Highway 92 north being developed by Daprano Homes Inc., and a 69-home

neighborhood on 123.8 acres on Milam and Coastline roads, owned by Frank

Flanders.

The Planning Commission is

the final authority on subdivision plats.