A proposal

for 79 homes on 124.4 acres on Ga. Highway 85 south at the end of Christopher

Drive is on the Fayette County Planning Commission's agenda for Thursday.

County zoning

staff recommends that the Planning Commission and the County Commission

deny the request to change the property's zoning category from A-R, which

requires that home lots be a minimum of five acres, to R-55, which allows

one-acre lots.

"Given

the proposed density, the request for rezoning from A-R to R-55 is not

in keeping with the Fayette County land use plan," says the staff's

analysis.

According to

the analysis, the property is bordered by 42.7 acres on the north, zoned

A-R, 25 acres on the west, also A-R, a subdivision with two-acre lots

on the south, and another A-R parcel, 35 acres, on the east.

Developer Michael

Faulkner, acting as agent for owners Cathryn Stephens, Deborah Williamson

and Elizabeth Stanley, is expected to make the case for the rezoning Thursday.

Commissioners

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

Also on the

agenda will be proposed amendments to subdivision regulations, requiring

that developers present digital copies of subdivision final plats, compatible

with the county's Geographic Information System.

Only hard copies

have been required in the past.