Fayetteville's city limits

will expand to take in the planned elementary school on Lester Road.

City Council Thursday night

approved annexation and rezoning of 94 acres so that the school can be

within the city limits.

Work is expected to begin soon

on Cleveland Elementary School to ease overcrowding at neighboring schools

and draw from residents moving into Stonebriar and other nearby developments.

There is also room on the northern

side of Lester Road for a middle school in a few years, but definite plans

concerning its construction have not yet been made.

The Fayette County Board of

Education bought the entire tract because it could not be purchased in

sections. There has been mention of the tract on the south side of Lester

Road, now zoned for residential use, being used for a future high school,

but any such use would be a decade away.

The county's next high school

is already in the works in the southern end of the county, and it will

not be open before the fall of 2004. That portion of the property could

be developed in some other way in the future.

School system officials requested

the annexation because of their desire to tie into the city's sewer system,

and city officials agreed that would be a good move environmentally.

Cleveland Elementary is expected

to draw nearly its entire student body from south of Ga. Highway 54, so

traffic on the highway should not be affected a great deal, school officials

said.

In other business Thursday,

the council approved a $32,250 bid for installation of a traffic signal

at Ga. Highway 92 and Jimmie Mayfield Boulevard.

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