Only one of

four rezoning proposals passed the muster of the Peachtree City Planning

Commission at its regular meeting Monday night.

The commission

voted to recommend that the City Council approve the rezoning of a 1.99-acre

tract off Hwy. 74 near the southern entrance to Kedron Drive from Agriculture-Reserve

to Office-Institutional. Other properties bordering the property are also

zoned OI, and the property will be sold so it can be combined with another

tract of OI land.

The commission

voted to recommend denial of another rezoning, tabled a third rezoning

matter and took no action on a fourth rezoning after a motion to recommend

approval failed with only one positive vote.

The City Council

makes the final decision on all rezoning requests before the city. The

Planning Commission only recommends whether to approve or deny each request.

Although the

commission recommended denying the rezoning of an estate-residential lot

in the Shakerag Plantation subdivision, the homeowner will likely still

be able to get the result sought by the rezoning. Thomas Haynes said he

wanted to build a second house on the 3.82-acre property so his son could

live there and take care of himself and his wife. Zoning regulations will

allow the house to be built as a guest house without a rezoning since

the lot is large enough.

Several neighbors

protested the rezoning petition but supported the construction of the

house.

The commission

also tabled a request for rezoning a limited use commercial property off

Ga. Highway 74 in the Whitlock Place subdivision to general commercial.

The owner was seeking the change so the main parcel, currently an art

gallery, could be changed into a restaurant.

No official

action was recorded, however, on a request from Hyland Developers for

a R-22 rezoning on property currently designated R-43. The developer wants

the rezoning so six homes can be built on the 4.56-acre tract on Astoria

Lane, instead of the original four homes proposed when the tract was part

of Hyland's plans for the Kedron Hills subdivision.

Hyland withdrew

the tract from the original plan to skirt around a state guideline that

any development within 500 feet of a sewer line is required to be hooked

up to the sewer system. The developer wanted the entire subdivision served

The proposed

six homes would be served by the sewer system, according to Hyland's zoning

application. The

Only one vote

was taken on the rezoning, resulting in one vote for recommending approval

to council, three votes against and one abstention.

Typically,

the commission votes until a motion passes but in this case they were

cleared to proceed with the agenda without acting further on the matter.

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