Though there

were several different requests from developers at Thursday night's Tyrone

Town Council meeting, the message that the council sent was that the developers

needed to have a specific plan for what they were gong to do on their

land before the council would make a decision.

The first group

up on Thursday was Creel Properties on behalf of the Hobgood estate. They

were asking the council to rezone 56.209 acres at Ga. Highway 74 and Senoia

Road from Agricultural/Residential to M-1 (Light Industrial). Rick Sewell,

speaking on behalf of the Hobgood family, said that there was no intended

use or user for the land at this time but that the county development

authority needed the area to be zoned properly before they could start

shopping it around.

Ed Wyatt, also

speaking on behalf of the Hobgood estate, said that there were no current

residences around the land, though there are some residences being built

there currently and the developer has said he had no problems with their

piece of land being developed. Both Wyatt and Sewell claimed that there

would be very little impact on the neighborhood and surrounding streets.

Several citizens spoke in opposition of the rezoning, stating a concern

for wetlands, the impact on the recreation complex which will be built

near there and a concern that nobody knew what would be going there.

In the end,

the council agreed with the planning commission, which recommended denial,

and the concerned citizens. Councilman Paul Letourneau recommended that

the developers go