Judging by

the jubilant reaction of the 15-year-olds at last week's Peachtree City

council meeting, they're more than ready to be allowed to drive the family

golf cart on their own.

But they had

better put the brakes on their plans until the council can officially

amend its current ordinance. That isn't expected to occur at least until

the next scheduled council meeting on Thursday, Sept. 5, meaning the earliest

the youngsters can drive on their own or with a friend who's at least

15 is Friday, Sept. 6, according to city spokesperson Betsy Tyler.

At last week's

meeting, council agreed to lower the unsupervised driving age to 15 and

allow such drivers to have a maximum of one passenger who must also be

at least 15. Council also decided to allow grandparents to supervise young

cart drivers as young as 12; previously that duty was left up only to

parents or legal guardians.

Another change

council agreed to was to forbid anyone from riding in the lap of a cart

driver for safety reasons. Several citizens pointed out that such scenarios

can be seen on the cart path system all the time.

City Attorney

Rick Lindsey said last week that he had not prepared draft ordinances

for the matter since he was unaware which directions council would go

on the matter.

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