The second

time was the charm for a small commercial rezoning request on Ga. Highway

74 north near Wisdom Road to get approval from the Peachtree City Planning

Commission.

This time,

the applicant agreed to restrict the potential use of one of the two buildings

planned for the 2.35-acre site, which would be rezoned from agricultural

reserve to limited use commercial.

The Planning

Commission voted 3-2 to recommend approval of the rezoning to the City

Council, which can either approve or deny the request. Commissioners Wes

Saunders, Dennis Payton and Bob Buckley voted in favor of recommending

the rezoning to council while Robert Ames and Rich Schumacher voted against

it.

The property's

land use plan designation is office-institutional.

One of the

buildings planned for the parcel will house a 10,000 sq. ft. showroom

for Dalton West Carpets. The other building, at 9,000 sq. ft., will be

restricted from becoming a gas station, package store, dine-in restaurant

and self-storage facility, among other excluded uses.

The site is

located to the south of Fulton Realty and is adjacent to another parcel

zoned agricultural reserve which is located at the corner of Hwy. 74 and

Wisdom Road.

The developer

plans to install a 10-foot-wide landscape buffer and a six-foot-high privacy

fence to separate the buildings from the adjacent Fairfield subdivision.

The plan also calls for an access road to the rear of the property which

would link up with a similar road that already exists behind the businesses

to the north of the property.

In other business,

the commission approved a plan to relocate 42 townhome units at the Centennial

subdivision off MacDuff Parkway. The townhomes were originally located

to the east of the parkway at the southern end of the parcel, but they

were moved further north and replaced by 15 lots.

The changes

will not increase the total number of homes on the site, which was capped

at 350 by the city council when it approved a rezoning for the property.

The commission

also approved a landscape plan for the Bruster's Ice Cream that is currently

under construction at Lexington Circle.

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