The rezoning

of land south of Peachtree City on Ga. Highway 74 for a shopping center

may have opened up the floodgates for similar type developments in the

area, worries city Mayor Bob Lenox.

In a letter

to Fayette County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn, Lenox asks the commission

to reconsider the rezoning for the Starr's Mill LLC shopping center. The

commission recently approved rezoning the property from A-R (agricultural-residential)

so it may be used for commercial purposes.

"I implore

you to reconsider your rezoning decision," Lenox wrote in the letter.

"The county land use plan for this area is on the verge of being

reduced to shambles."

Lenox cites

in that letter several indications that property owners on Hwy. 74 and

Redwine Road are preparing to jointly sell their property for commerical

use and office use although it is currently zoned A-R also. Those property

owners, having between 40 and 60 acres among them, have already been in

contact with developers and legal counsel, the mayor wrote.

And, he added,

another nearby landowner is preparing to seek a rezoning for office use.

Lenox said

he has heard that several property owners have formed a group to combine

their tracts of land and sell it so it may be developed commercially.

In a brief

interview Wednesday, Lenox said he thought the Starr's Mill development

would be a very nice shopping center. But he still thinks the rezoning

went against the county's land use plan and if it stands, other property

owners in the area will have the legal right to seek similar rezonings

for their property.

Lenox said

in the letter that he was still waiting for an answer from his original

letter to Dunn asking several questions about the county's decision to

rezone the Starr's Mill property.