A local business

owner has sued Peachtree City over a rezoning denial which would allow

a custom frame shop to become a restaurant.

Patricia Wright

of P.K. Wright Galleries filed the suit last week in Fayette County Superior

Court. She is asking a judge to rule that a rezoning from limited use

commercial to general commercial is proper; otherwise she wants the judge

to allow the restaurant to operate under the limited use commercial zoning.

The Galleries

is a custom frame shop located at 399 Ga. Highway 74 North. It also contains

several retail areas leased to individuals starting their own arts and

crafts businesses.

At recent council

meetings, Wright said she is selling the business due to her failing health.

She also said the restaurant which would operate there would be locally

owned.

Council recently

denied Wright's request for a general commercial rezoning, stating that

she was aware if the use of the property changed, its zoning would revert

to its previous zoning of office-institutional.

In court papers,

Wright argues that there are five eating and drinking establishments within

two-tenths of a mile of her property.

Wright is also

seeking monetary damages in the suit.

A lawsuit represents

one side of an issue. Peachtree City has not yet filed its response to

the lawsuit and the allegations contained in it.

City officials

originally suggested that Wright seek another limited use commercial rezoning,

but her time constraints to sell the property kept a special LUC plan

from being designed.

In the suit,

Wright contends the property has been marketed under its current zoning

for a year with no offers. But the property has not been marketed as office-institutional,

it was revealed at a recent meeting.

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