Members of

the First Baptist Church in Senoia will soon have a new sanctuary to call

home.

The Coweta

County Commission gave unanimous approval Tuesday night of the church's

request to build a 44,000 sq.ft sanctuary on a 19-acre site on Ga. Highway

85, just north of Senoia.

As nearly 100

members watched in anticipation, the board gave its go ahead for placing

the sanctuary in a rural reserve zoning classification.

The site has

more than 450 feet of frontage on the state highway and has Keg Creek

as its rear property boundary.

Since the creek

is part of the property, the land falls in the Stream Corridor Protection

District. The district is designed to prevent contamination of future

water sources for the county.

In order to

build on the property, the church will have to comply with watershed protection

standards such as not building within 150 feet of the creek.

Other conditions

the church will have to meet include:

·Getting

approval from the DOT for access to the busy state highway.

·Use lighting

that would not adversely affect any nearby residential property owners.

·Create

a 20-feet vegetated buffer along the north and south sides of the property.

·Submit

a soil analysis prepared by a geo-technical engineer.