A 107-home

subdivision north of the Wynnmeade subdivision has been given a green

light by the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

The 81.3-acre

Live Oaks subdivision will be connected to Wynnmeade at North Meade Drive

and Wynnmeade Parkway. It will also connect to MacDuff Parkway through

an access road. The access road will be located further south than originally

planned which will make the proposed school site adjacent to the proposed

subdivision more suitable for the school board.

The school

site is on land currently located out of the city limits. It is part of

land that could be annexed into the city under a proposal from John Wieland

Homes for its 350-home Centennial subdivision.

According to

fire officials, the access road to Live Oaks off MacDuff Parkway is key

to decreasing the response times to the subdivision. Without the access

road, response times will range up to 10 minutes from the nearest station

at Paschal Road, according to Fire Marshal John Dailey.

The connections

to North Meade and Wynnmeade parkways must be barricaded to all traffic

except emergency vehicles until 80 percent of the homes in Live Oaks are

issued certificates of occupancy. The access road will serve as the main

construction entrance, keeping that traffic from going through Wynnmeade,

one original concern of the Wynnmeade Homeowners Association.

The developer

of the subdivision, Piedmont Properties, also wants to trade land to the

city in return for an existing city park that would become part of the

new subdivision.

The proposed

trade would give the city two undeveloped areas at the current entrance

to Wynnmeade off Ga. Highway 54 which would be converted into a city park.

The final decision on the proposed trade will be left up to the City Council

however.

Although Wynnmeade

resident Orville Barber opposed the land swap for the park area, another

Wynnmeade resident supported the idea, saying it would be more acceptable

than the park it would replace.

"We are

in dire need of a park for our children," said Merrilyn Arnold, who

is secretary of the Wynnmeade Homeowners Association.

City Planner

David Rast said the recreation department is looking to build two tot

lots in the subdivision also.

Barber also

complained that Live Oaks should be restricted by Wynnmeade's covenants

since it is an extension of Wynnmeade. But Marvin Isenberg of Piedmont

Properties said Live Oaks is a separate subdivision and would have its

own covenants instead.

The city is

also requiring Piedmont Properties to include covenants for the subdivision

that limit the number of rental units to no more than 20 percent of the

total homes in the subdivision.

Isenberg said

the price range of homes in the subdivision would be from $160,000 to

$200,000.

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