It will be

at least another month before the first step of the proposed Fayetteville

southside master plan is recommended for approval by the city's Planning

and Zoning Commission.

The annexation

and rezoning now before the commission was tabled at Tuesday night's regular

monthly meeting so that staff can review the required Planned Community

District documents submitted recently, and in hopes that a reply from

the Atlanta Regional Commission concerning the city's amended future land

use map is forthcoming.

The waiting

period for ARC review is at least 60 days, planning director Jahnee Prince

told the commissioners, and it has been nearly that long since the new

map was submitted. "We expect to hear from them any day," she

said.

Several properties

in the area, totalling 53.17 acres, are included in the plan, which is

the first proposal officially submitted to the city for the area.

This tract,

near the northeast corner of Ga. Highways 85 and 92, has been named Summit

Point and is proposed as a mixed-use community with office, retail and

residential uses a "live-work-shop neighborhood," as city officials

put it. To that end, the developers have applied for a Planned Community

District zoning.

The commercial

portion of the development is to be along Hwy. 85, with the major entrance

lining up with the entrance to Fayetteville Towne Center across the highway.

Residential units would be more toward the interior.

The overall

southside master plan consists of about 400 acres and stretches east to

Jeff Davis Road, with a proposed connector road beginning at Jimmie Mayfield

Drive. The project has already been more than a year in the planning stages

since it was first suggested to the city, and it is expected to be 5-10

years before completion if it is developed as proposed.

The proposed

Summit Point development is anchored by a 116,000-square-foot shopping

center with a 53,000-square-foot Publix grocery store. According to city

officials, PCD zoning does not allow commercial uses greater than 20,000

square feet, and deviations must be approved by the City Council and be

user-specific.

Along with

the center and seven commercial outparcels, the plan calls for three office

building totalling about 20,000 square feet, and 69 homes on 24 acres

with a 3.2-acre park, nature trails, a playground and a clubhouse. About

10.95 acres of open space is included in the plan.

Architectural

guidelines would be consistent throughout the community, according to

a representative of the developer, Concordia Properties. If approved,

Summit Point would be built in three phases: the shopping center, taking

about one year to complete; the residential section, over two years; and

the office and outparcel section, taking up to five years, depending upon

the market.

While the applicants

presented a possible design package for the residential portion, some

commissioners expressed concerns about the proposed lot sizes of 60 by

120 feet.

After the vote

was taken to table the plan, a representative of Concordia asked that

his group be given some specific written guidelines as to the reasons

for tabling so that they would know how to proceed. He also expressed

some displeasure at yet another delay, saying that city staff should share

some of the blame for not reviewing the documents submitted nearly a week

before. Concordia representatives have been very prompt to respond to

every direction given by the city so far, he said.

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