Development of commercial parcels

at Lexington Circle will be allowed to continue despite the Peachtree

City's current development moratorium.

The City Council has ruled

that the project was worthy of a waiver to the moratorium requirements.

The site, located at the intersection of Ga. Highway 54 and Walt Banks

Road, will contain a host of commercial parcels and mixed uses.

Council also granted a moratorium

waiver for Lexington Park, the adjacent residential development, so the

remainder of the homes will be built by John Wieland Homes.

The city has already received

plans for a CVS Pharmacy for Lexington Circle. Plans have also been developed

for a Bruster's Ice Cream building and a Buckhead Brewery structure.

Because the sites won't be

held to the limitations of the moratorium, the city Planning Commission

will be allowed to consider them for approval.

Though the moratorium is in

place, city staff is still working with developers to advise them on construction

projects and plans. The city is allowing developers to install landscaping

so a building may be opened with a temporary certificate of occupancy.

But the developer must agree to make any changes necessary to get it to

comply to any new landscape requirements that might be considered by council

in coming months.

Typically, the city requires

a landscape plan for each development that must be approved before the

building department can issue a certificate of occupancy for a given structure.

The Planning Commission is

empowered to approve or deny the landscape plans as one of its routine

duties.

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