A request to

rezone property bordering Highway 74 North and Crabapple Lane from residential

to office-institutional has been denied by the Peachtree City Planning

Commission.

But the final

say-so will come from the Peachtree City Council, which is scheduled to

consider the request at its first meeting in May.

Peachtree City

Holdings had requested the rezoning of the 6.7 acre tract. The company

has plans for developing a small office complex there.

The land is

currently zoned R-43 for residential single-family homes on sites of at

least one acre.

Several Planning

Commission members said such a rezoning would result in spot zoning.

Planning Commissioner

Dennis Payton said the city has always followed the land use plan in its

rezoning decisions.

City development

staff opposed the rezoning since the proposal did not mesh with the current

land use plan.

A nearby school

and church have been developed, but it was never intended for office and

commercial development to extend west of the highway, Jim Williams, the

city's director of developmental services, wrote in a position paper.

The rezoning

was also opposed by several residents from the area, who claimed that

the area has always been land use planned for residential purposes only.

Some worried that traffic in the area would increase, and city officials

contended that the intersection of Crabapple Lane and Hwy. 74 was redesigned

recently solely for the purpose of handling traffic in the low-density

residential area instead of for office or commercial purposes.

Across Hwy.

74 from the proposed site is the Kedron Village retail center, including

the anchor Kroger grocery store and other retailers.

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