The future

of Peachtree City's last remaining multifamily zoned property is pretty

much set in stone.

At its regular

meeting Monday night, the Peachtree City Planning Commission approved

a plan to build a 144-unit apartment complex specifically marketed at

seniors. Prime Communities plans to use security as a major selling point

and emergency personnel will be on hand 24 hours a day to assist residents.

Originally,

the plan met with much opposition from residents in the adjacent Village

Park subdivision. But in the end, the main problem that couldn't be fixed

was the size of the building which is three stories and drew complaints

that it would "dominate the area". Making the building one story

would likely end up with a lot of impervious surface, which the Planning

Commission wants to avoid if possible.

To respond

to residents' concerns, Prime Communities made several changes to its

concept plan for The Parc, including:

Moving the

building further away from the subdivision.

Committing

to a 100-foot undisturbed buffer area between the apartments and the subdivision.

Lowering the

service delivery area at least eight feet to reduce noise of deliveries

being made.

Adding a continuous

right turn lane into the development from Crosstown Drive to alleviate

traffic congestion.

Roy Dickson

of Prime Communities said the company also plans to acquire a portion

of the entrance road to the Village Park subdivision which will lead to

The Parc's service and delivery entrance. That way the company will bear

the responsibility for maintaining that part of Village Park Drive and

it will make sure the residents have permanent easements to drive home,

Dickson said.

The road will

also likely have to be realigned, he added.

"We're

going to insure that the road works," Dickson said.

The new concept

plan has also added a fire access road around the entire building and

redesigned entry gates to fit emergency vehicles.

One of the

conditions of approval requires that all construction vehicles must enter

from Crosstown Drive instead of the entrance off Village Park Drive. Dickson

agreed that the entrance would be blocked off during construction.

Additionally,

Dickson agreed to spend up to $50,000 for the development's share of a

possible traffic light which could be erected at the intersection of Crosstown

and Peachtree Parkway. The city will conduct a traffic study on that intersection,

said Jim Williams, the city's director of developmental services.

Other concept

plans approved by the commission were an expansion of Carriage Lane Presbyterian

Church on Carriage Lane and for Vassey Medical Office on Georgia Park.

The commission

also approved landscape plans for a warehouse at Southeast Properties

on Ga. Highway 74, a warehouse expansion at Tiernan and Patrylo on Hwy.

74, a warehouse expansion at Shinsei on Southpark Drive, Royal Learning

Center on Commerce Drive North and SST Industries in Gardner Park.