Citizens eager

to find out whether a power plant will be built in their backyards will

have to wait until the early fall for an answer.

That's the

word from Duffy Communications' Brian Rubenstein, who represents Williams

Company in its efforts to build a plant in South Fulton County, and Dan

Skizim, project manager.

The company

has asked that its application to rezone 288 acres for the plant, on Peters

Road at Old Jonesboro Road, be delayed.

"We chose

to push back the zoning date so we could complete the [state Environmental

Protection Division] air permit application and provide the county with

all the information it will need to make an informed decision," said

Skizim.

"We believe

very strongly in the merits and benefits of this project and believe that

once the county has had the chance to review all of the factual information,

it will determine that the Fulton Energy Center is indeed a beneficial

project for the community," he added.

An information

meeting is scheduled Sept. 13 at the Fulton Service Center South on Stonewall

Tell Road.

Public hearings

on the rezoning application are now scheduled for Oct. 6 with the county

Planning Commission and Nov. 7 with the Fulton County commission.

The company

also has submitted a rezoning application with Union City. Nearly 32 acres

of the site is within the city limits and officials were requesting that

the property's zoning category be changed from Community Unit Plan to

Light Industrial.

The hearing

was set for July 30, but Rubenstein said the Union City hearing also will

be delayed until the fall.

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