Crabapple Lane

rezoning okayed by PTC Council

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The Peachtree

City Council has approved a rezoning for a subdivision off Crabapple Lane

that will include 45 homes.

The move changes

the zoning to R-43 for minimum lot sizes of one acre as opposed to the

previous agricultural-residential zoning.

The subdivision

will be developed by Jimmy Halligan of Hyland Developers. Halligan said

that some land in the subdivision would be dedicated to the city for a

park.

The subdivision

will also be served by a septic system for each individual home, and Halligan

has told the Planning Commission that he won't build a home on a lot that

didn't pass a perc test.

The 45 homes

represents a 78 percent reduction in the amount of homes that had first

been proposed for the property last year in a rezoning request that was

eventually denied.

"I'd like

to say this one is 78 percent better," said councilwoman Annie McMenamin.

City staff

will "work out" the details of a predicament involving the city's

requirement for a 100-foot undisturbed buffer along Ga. Highway to be

deeded to the city. Halligan has requested that he retain some of that

land to go towards the "unit count" for the subdivision.

A variance

could be sought to that buffering requirement, but the matter would have

to be heard by the City Council.

New calculations

create 45 new students at Kedron Elementary School, 11 at Booth Middle

School and another 11 at McIntosh High School.