Faced with

redistricting difficulties and complaints from parents, the Fayette County

Board of Education abandoned a plan to fund an elementary school on land

donated to the school system on the western side of Peachtree City.

But there are

safeguards to insure the land won't be developed in case the school board

is unable to use the land in the future.

Board officials

plan to seek another site for its next elementary school, but they have

made it clear that they plan to use the donated site off MacDuff Parkway

in the future.

The lingering

question will be how the funding will occur for construction on that site

since there are no funds left from the board's bond issue for build another

elementary school.

The 19-acre

tract, located north of the Wynnmeade subdivision and west of MacDuff

Parkway, was donated by John Wieland Homes as part of its plan to annex

80 acres into Peachtree City. The plan was approved earlier this year,

with a cap of 350 homes on the entire development.

When the annexation

was approved by council, it was stipulated that if the school is unable

to build on the site in the future that the land would revert to open

space and would not be developed. It was left up to city staff and Wieland

officials to work out how that could happen legally.

That agreement

was supposed to be returned to City Council for approval, but it has not

come up for approval since it was last discussed at the Sept. 6 council

meeting.

The western

area of Peachtree City will grow rapidly in the coming years, with the

addition of the Summit Apartments, the Cedarcroft subdivision and the

plans for Centennial, the John Wieland Homes subdivision and plans for

a subdivision north of Wynnmeade.

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