Could Tyrone

soon be compared to Seaside and Celebration, Fla.?

It's possible

if the Tyrone Town Council approves a proposal by Bob Mooney of Cobblestone

Development to build 65 homes on a 77-acre site near the Pendleton subdivision.

Mooney originally

asked the Tyrone Planning Commission last Thursday to approve a rezoning

from AR, which requires three-acre lots to R48, which allows one-acre

lots.

But Mooney

said the development would work better if the commission would allow a

clustering development on half-acre sites that would mimic the pastel-colored

homes of Seaside in the Florida panhandle. The homes would be tightly

packed together and the development would feature six pocket parks.

But because

Tyrone currently does not have a zoning category that allows half-acre

lots, the commission decided to approve the rezoning to R-48 and said

the Town Council would have to decide if it wants to create an ordinance

allowing smaller lots.

Mooney said

the development would feature homes a minimum of 2,600 square feet in

size and priced between $350,000 and $500,00.

Planning commission

members liked the style of the development, but said the smaller lots

could create problems, including sewer disposal.

But Mooney

said he proposed having the drainfields for all the homes in an eight-acre

tract on the site.

Planning Commission

Chairman Lyn Redwood said the soil map that she examined showed that 16

lots would be unbuildable and wondered if the development would still

be feasible with a smaller number of lots.

Mooney said

the map was merely a guide, and a detailed soil analysis would have to

be completed before he knew exactly how many lots he could develop.

With the Planning

Commission approving the development for one-acre lots, he added that

a lot of the green space would be eaten up by the bigger lots and that

the parks would probably not be in the plan. The Town Council will give

the development a final yay or nay Sept. 20.

In other news,

the Planning Commission:

Recommended

approval of Braelinn Baptist Church's request to rezone a 69.8-acre tract

on Ga. Highway 74 to Educational Institutional. The church will build

a new sanctuary at the site.

Tabled an

annexation request by J.O. Jennings to annex 32 acres on Trickum Creek

Road into the town. Jennings wanted to annex the tract into Tyrone because

it's bordered on two sides by the city.

But the commission

decided to table the issue until more information is available on what

Jennings plans to do with the tract. The property is currently zoned AR

in the county.

Town Manager

Barry Amos said he expects the council to discuss the annexation at its

Sept. 20 meeting.

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