Almost 150 acres are under

consideration for annexation into the city limits of three Fayette cities.

Fayette's County Commission

Thursday will consider its position on the three annexation requests.

John Wieland Homes is seeking

annexation of 80.65 acres near MacDuff Parkway into Peachtree City. The

property is part of the 350-home Centennial subdivision, and the county

recently rezoned it to allow 14 homes at Wieland's request.

The original plan was to put

336 homes on the portion of the property within Peachtree City and build

only 14 homes on the county portion. Under plans being considered by Peachtree

City, the total of 350 homes would be spread more evenly over the entire

150-acre tract.

Plans are for the Wieland company

also to donate land for a future school site and a Peachtree City fire

station.

Fayette staff have reviewed

the plan and attached comments, and county commissioners will now add

any comments they like after reviewing the plans at their meeting Thursday

at 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex.

Also under consideration are

Wieland's plan to add 36.1 acres to Lakeside on Redwine subdivision and

annex the land into the city of Fayetteville. The land is part of a tract

of more than 200 acres owned by developer P.K. Dixon. The only way for

future residents to get to the property, short of building an expensive

bridge over wetlands, is through the Lakeside subdivision.

Dixon's plans for a mixed use

development on the entire tract were turned down two years ago.

R.L. Jennings is asking the

town of Tyrone to annex 32.41 acres on Trickum Creek Road into the town.

County planners said the annexation request includes no information on

planned use of the property, other than the request to bring it into the

town with a zoning category of A-R (agricultural-residential), the same

designation it holds in the county.

But Tyrone's A-R category allows

homes on three-acre lots, whereas the county's A-R requires a minimum

of five acres.

In other business Thursday,

commissioners will consider SprintCom Inc.'s request to increase the height

of a communications tower at Ga. Highway 54 and Broken Bow Drive by ten

feet to allow an additional antenna for Sprint.

A similar request on McDonough

Road was approved recently.

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