The Coweta

County Board of Commissioners decided Tuesday night to step back and take

an overview of the development going on in the county.

vote, the County Commission decided to study the growth, zoning issues

and land use planning for six months.

During the

study time, new building permits and zoning applications would not be

considered.

The study suggestion

was brought before the board by Commissioner Greg Tarbutton. An interesting

clause in the vote was the study period will be deactivated in 30 days

if municipalities in the county don't agree to also examine their zoning

issues.

Tarbutton stated

that the county and its cities need the six month time period to jointly

study zoning and land use issues, an area of concern raised at the recent

Intergovernmental Retreat.

The study period

is designed to give municipal and county planners time to look at zoning

and land use issues jointly with the goal of having common solutions and

goals for these issues.

Commissioner

Vernon "Mutt" Hunter agreed with the motion, but is not so sure

the county's cities will go along with the idea.

The last time

the county called a halt on zoning applications was in 1997, when the

county increased the lot size to 1.6 acres.

Hunter doesn't

believe that's the motive behind this study.

"I'd love

to see two-acre lots, but that's not going to happen. It's fine to examine

the issue, but there is no specific issue for this study," he said.