Senoia's rapid

development came to a screeching halt Monday night when the City Council

voted down three rezoning requests for new subdivisions.

With a packed

City Hall, Councilmen Robert Hannah, Dianne Cleveland and Darren Ratajski

said no to subdivisions on Rockaway Road and one on Ga. Highway 85.

The subdivisions

would have added more than 200 homes to the rapidly growing city on lots

as small as a quarter acre.

Councilman

Pam Youngblood and Mayor Joan Trammell voted for the rezonings and after

the votes, Trammell let her feelings be known. (See related story.)

At last week's

public hearings, numerous citizens denounced the ideas for the subdivisions

and said they did not want any more traffic on Rockaway Road or homes

on small lots.

The meeting

was one of the testier ones in the city in the last few months, with Hannah

and Trammell scrapping on several issues.

The first debate

occurred when Senoia Tree Commission Chairman Mary Provost asked the council

to approve developer David Lindsay as a member of the commission.

Hannah said

he had a problem with Lindsay clear-cutting a new commercial development

on Ga. Highway 16, adding he thought there was supposed to be a natural

buffer left at the site. City Administrator Leonard Thompson said he had

talked with Lindsay and the developer had pledged to place bigger trees

on the site.

"But didn't

we require a natural buffer?" Hannah questioned.

Thompson said

yes, and Trammell said the information was available to any councilman

who came to City Hall and asked for it.

"I do

come up here," said Hannah.

Hannah also

questioned whether the city planned to provide sewerage to anything outside

the city limits.

When Trammell

said that was never in the plan, he said he just wanted to make sure that

comment was in the record.

The meeting

ended quietly, with all the councilmen heading their separate ways.