The Fayetteville

City Council voted Thursday night to approve the necessary rezonings and

annexations to allow the southside master plan to move forward. Also approved

were two development agreements relating to the property.

This comes

nearly two years after the first proposals for the southside tract, along

the Ga. Highway 92 connector between Ga. Highway 85 and Jeff Davis Road,

were brought to the council. Thursday night's action also comes on the

heels of about four months of work by the Southside Master Plan Task Force

-- a group of city officials, local residents and developers working with

an Atlanta consulting firm to devise the best possible overall plan for

a site with multiple land owners.

A little over

53 of the approximately 260 acres in the plan were in the unincorporated

county and had to be annexed into the city Thursday night. A variety of

residential, commercial, office and Planned Community Development (PCD)

zonings were approved for the overall site.

The development

agreements also stipulate certain road improvements, including the proposed

extension of the Hwy. 92 connector to Jeff Davis Road as well as intersection

improvements at a number of locations.

The entire

southside master plan will be examined in more detail in Wednesday's edition

of The Citizen.

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