Fayette and

Fairburn officials will meet next week to discuss a controversial annexation

request.

The Fayette

County Commission and the Fairburn City Council will sit down Wednesday

morning at 8:30 a.m. at the Fayette County Administrative Complex to discuss

the proposal from the Bedford School to annex nearly 10 acres of its property

in unincorporated Fayette County on Milam Road into Fairburn.

The property

is part of a 47-acre site owned by the Bedford School, which wants to

expand its school and have it all in the city limits, said Fairburn City

Clerk Nancy Faulkner.

Fayette county

officials have already said the move could set a precedent.

County Commission

executive assistant Carol Chandler said adjacent property owners could

also petition for annexation.

"The zoning

categories would be Fairburn's, so higher density development could occur,"

she said.

But Fairburn

officials say the annexation is done just to keep all the school's property

in one municipality.