An auto body

repair shop will replace Peachtree Skate on Clover Reach in Peachtree

City now that the city's Planning Commission has signed off on the plans.

ABRA Body and

Glass will have a secured area where vehicles waiting for repairs will

be stored; they will not be kept in the main parking lot, according to

ABRA representative Kathy Showalter. Also, a 6-foot masonry wall will

be installed to screen and secure the vehicles on site.

Planning Commissioner

Bob Buckley was disappointed about switching the uses of the property

since the commission had recently changed the parcel's land use from light

industrial to commercial on the land use plan. But the parcel is currently

zoned light industrial, and even if it was commercial ABRA would still

be able to locate there, Buckley was told.

Planning Commissioner

Robert Ames said he wants the company to tear up some of the asphalt in

the parking lot since it won't need the current 100-plus spaces that are

on-site. Showalter said the company would attempt to work with the city

on the matter.

The vote to

approve the plan passed 3-2, with Buckley and Ames against. Buckley said

he wanted to wait and have a dialogue about the plans since the original

idea of making the property commercial would be to make room for an expansion

of The Avenue, an adjacent commercial development.

But City Planner

David Rast said he understood that Cousins Properties, owner of The Avenue,

had passed up on an opportunity to purchase Peachtree Skate on a previous

occasion.

Buckley brought

forth two different motions to table the matter for two weeks, but both

failed.

In other business,

the commission:

Approved a

site plan for the Buckhead Brewery restaurant which will be located at

the new Lexington Circle development on Ga. Highway 54 East near Walt

Banks Road.

Approved a

landscape plan for Kedron Dental on Park Place near Whitlock Place off

Hwy. 74 North.

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