The final site plan for the

Wal-Mart and Home Depot shopping center in Peachtree City has long been

submitted to the city's Planning Department.

But for now, they're just gathering

dust. That's for several reasons, city planner David Rast told the Planning

Commission Monday night.

For starters, the city is waiting

on more information from the developer, RAM Development. Also, RAM hasn't

received a permit for the "through lane" from the Georgia Department

of Transportation, Rast said.

RAM has been notified the final

plans won't be presented to the Planning Commission until all the information

has been received, including the approved permits from the DOT, he added.

But there's one element gumming

up the works that RAM can't control the possible denial of a traffic light

on Ga. Highway 54 for The Avenue at Peachtree City. When traffic projections

were calculated for the Wal-Mart/Home Depot center, engineers used a scenario

with the light at The Avenue.

The city has not been notified

in writing that the state Department of Transportation will deny the light

that was planned on Hwy. 54 at the entrance to The Avenue. If a denial

is put in writing, the traffic study will have to be re-calculated, Director

of Developmental Services Jim Williams said Friday.

That could put the Wal-Mart/Home

Depot shopping center on hold at least until the new figures come back

in, Williams said.

"It (the light for The

Avenue) was an important part of the traffic plan," said Jim Williams,

the city's director of developmental services. "It definitely will

have an effect."

Williams hopes the light will

eventually gain DOT approval. But if the written denial of the light comes

in, the city will immediately authorize another calculation of the traffic

numbers for all projects on that corridor of Hwy. 54, Williams added.

"It will, in effect, put

everything on hold," Williams said.