Several committees

formed to study Peachtree City's development ordinances have continued

to meet even though a Superior Court Judge threw out the city's moratorium

several weeks ago.

The tree preservation

committee, which is reviewing the landscape ordinance, likely will be

the first committee to bring recommendations to the Planning Commission

for changes to that ordinance. The stormwater committee will likely follow

that several weeks later, but the overlay district committee will take

a little while longer, the Planning Commission was told at Monday's joint

meeting between the commission and the City Council.

Jim Williams,

the city's director of developmental services, said some of the recommendations

from the committees will likely cause a stir.

"I think

there will be some very controversial recommendations," Williams

said.

Once committees

finalize their recommendations, they will be forwarded to the ordinance

clarification committee for review before the proposed ordinance changes

are reviewed by the city attorney, Williams said.

Then the recommendations

and the attorney's legal opinion will be forwarded to the commission for

consideration at a public hearing. After getting approval at that level,

the ordinance changes will be forwarded to City Council for final adoption.

The catch will

be devising a way to enforce all the new ordinance changes, said Mayor

Steve Brown.

"Now I

can easily say city staff is overwhelmed," Brown said, noting that

each of the committees has expressed concern over making sure environmental

regulations are adhered to in all developments.

Brown suggested

that the city consider adopting a fee structure similar to what is used

in other cities to pay for more enforcement measures. He also said the

city may hire an arborist so an expert can deal with tree-related issues.

Councilman

Steve Rapson said he would like to see the city create a stormwater utility

to handle changes to stormwater regulations.

"That's

going to be a big issue," Rapson said.

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