With some metro

Atlanta grocery store chains adding gas stations to their offerings, Peachtree

City Mayor Steve Brown has asked the city's Planning Commission to see

if that could happen here.

Kroger, which

has three stores in Peachtree City already, has already opened gas stations

at some metro area stores. Elsewhere, Publix has done the same.

But neither

company has indicated they wish to build a gas station at their stores

in Peachtree City.

The commission

discussed the matter briefly at its regular meeting Monday night. City

Planner David Rast said Brown wanted the planning commission to look into

the matter.

Rast said that

the city recently approved a drive-up emissions building in the parking

lot of the Peachtree Crossing shopping center. That building, however,

was replacing a kiosk that had been vacant for some time, Rast noted.

The new open-air

emissions building is relatively small with room for one or two vehicles.

A gas station,

however, would take up a significant amount of room in a parking lot,

Rast noted.

"Certainly

a gasoline canopy is more intensive," Rast said, adding that he has

heard Kroger plans to build a gas station at its Banks Crossing location

in Fayetteville.

Commissioner

Wes Saunders said the Kroger near where he works in Decatur has a gas

station which is convenient for him to use. But the shopping center it

is located in is rather large compared to the Kroger locations in Peachtree

City, Saunders said.

All of the

village retail centers are zoned general commercial, but if the local

grocery stores plan to put in a gas station, the structure would be reviewed

through the city's typical process, Rast said.

Rast said he

would research the matter and report