Knowing that

a rezoning request is in the works for the same parcel of land, the Peachtree

City Planning Commission tabled consideration of the concept plan for

an office building near Falcon Field Airport.

Mike Rossetti,

the owner of the proposed office building, complained that tabling the

concept plan would further delay his project by a month and a half. He

wants the property rezoned from general industrial to light industrial

so the buffers could be reduced along the property line.

But the rezoning,

if approved, would result in a different concept plan being submitted

for the project. That's the hangup several of the planning commissioners

had.

Rossetti is

proposing a first phase consisting of a 20,000-square-foot building on

almost five acres bordering Falcon Drive and Echo Court. The second phase

would have a similar size building and a hangar to store aircraft.

The property

is adjacent to the Falcon Field terminal and one concern of the Planning

Commission was making sure the city's airport authority had given input

on the proposed building. Of particular concern is a proposal to abandon

a taxiway easement to the property.

Airport Manager

Jim Savage also said the Airport Authority might be concerned with making

sure drainage on the property meshes with the airport's drainage system.

Rossetti became

upset at the proposal to table the concept plan consideration, asking

the commission to either approve or deny the plan before them. But Planning

Commission Chairman Wes Saunders reminded Rossetti that tabling the proposal

was within the commission's discretion if there are questions about the

information provided.

Planning Commissioner

Rich Schumacher said that anytime a project's approval has been hurried

have been.

In other business,

the commission also approved a concept plan for an office/warehouse building

on Dividend Drive and a landscape plan for the World Airways building

on North Peachtree Parkway at Ga. Highway 74. The office/warehouse on

Dividend Drive would be 21,000 square feet and located at the rear of

the property, which currently has a 25,000-square-foot building.