The Peachtree

City Council has approved a plan to annex 80 acres in the northwest quadrant

of the city.

The annexation

was approved at council's meeting last week after a few details were hammered

out. The land will be zoned GR-4 to accommodate the cluster home design

elements and townhomes planned for the property, said Mayor Bob Lenox.

The property,

which is bordered on three sides by the city limits, will become part

of a 350-home subdivision developed by John Wieland Homes. Plans for the

subdivision must still go through the normal review process with the city's

Planning Commission.

John Wieland

Homes will donate about 19 acres to the Fayette County Board of Education

for an elementary school site. School officials have agreed to accept

the site; however, it is not clear when a school will be built there,

said Mike Satterfield of the Fayette County School System.

Satterfield

added that a school will have to be built to serve all the new residential

developments in the area; that area is currently in the Peachtree City

Elementary district.

"The superintendent

and school board feel comfortable with this site," Satterfield said,

adding that it will be large enough to build the county's prototype elementary

school building.

Dan Fields,

vice president of John Wieland Homes, originally said if the school wasn't

built in five years the company wanted the land to revert to its possession.

He later committed to waiting eight years and agreed that even if that

occurred, no development would take place on the site.

But the company

wants possession of the school site for tax purposes if the school isn't

built. The matter will be negotiated between city staff and John Wieland

Homes and brought