The Peachtree

City Planning Commission has recommended that 25 properties be rezoned

to fall in line with the latest update to the city's land use plan ...

and coincide with the current use of those properties.

The rezonings

will not become official until they are adopted by the Peachtree City

City Council at a future meeting. Most were for city owned property such

as parks which would be rezoned to open space from their current zoning

designations.

The commission

elected to cut 10 proposed rezonings from the original list of 35 it was

to consider. On all but two of those parcels, the property owner objected

to the rezoning.

At Monday's

commission meeting, City Planner David Rast said some of the objections

were for properties currently zoned general commercial which would have

been rezoned to limited use commercial. Rast said the property owners

complained they had purchased the land at general commercial prices and

they didn't want to reduce the value of their property.

Those properties

included three office buildings in the Westpark area including the 800

Commerce Drive building, the 200 Commerce Drive building and the Piedmont

Medical Office building. Also scrapped was a plan to rezone the Aberdeen

Woods Conference Center on Aberdeen Parkway from general commercial to

limited use commercial and several day care centers to limited use commercial

from their current residential zonings.

The commission

did, however, recommend approval of a limited use commercial rezoning

for the Planterra Ridge Golf Course clubhouse which is currently zoned

general industrial.

Liza Schroder

said she opposed the rezoning of the Loghouse Park on Cabin Gate to open

space because the homeowner's association had questions on how the rezoning

would affect its taxes. The association owns the parcel, which is currently

zoned residential and contains a log house with a community meeting room

and two tennis courts.

Schroder pointed

out that the park is not owned by the city and can only be used by residents

of the Rockspray subdivision.

Commission

Chairman Robert Ames asked if the association would be willing to consider

a change to the zoning so the property would be better protected in the

future. Schroder said she thought so.

"We don't

want it to become residential," Schroder said.

The commission

eventually decided to withdraw that rezoning from its list of recommendations

to council.

Among the city-owned

properties the commission proposes rezoning to open space are the South

74 baseball and soccer complex, the Meade Field softball complex, Big

Pine Park at Boxwood Court and Sweetgum Road, Smokerise Park at Smokerise

Trace and Smokerise Point, Stoneacre Park off Stoneacre Curve and Ardenlee

Park off Ardenlee Parkway.

Other city-owned

property that would be rezoned open space includes the Satterthwaite and

Weber fire stations.

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