An attempt

to rezone 70 acres of land along Rivertown Road from R-1 residential to

R-2 residential was shot down Monday night at Fairburn's regular City

Council meeting.

Tom Black of

Legacy Investments Group who had applied for the rezoning spoke in favor

of the motion saying he "knew there were mixed feelings on all sides"

of the issue. He appealed to the Council offering up a new design that

showed 105 single family lots on 52 developable acres, or two units per

acre.

Several citizens

who live along Rivertown Road spoke in opposition to Black's request.

Denise Harrison said that the "nice, small community" was "getting

busier and busier." She felt that two houses on one acre would be

"quite tight."

Councilman

Roy Farr moved to deny the proposal. The motion was seconded by Councilman

Doug Crawford and passed unanimously.

In relation

to land development, section 4.1 of the subdivision regulations was amended

without any question. Entitled "Suitability of the Land", the

new wording made it clear that "land subject to flooding, improper

damage or erosion, and any land deemed unsuitable for development due

to steep slopes, unsuitable soils... shall not be subjected to development

for any uses..."

After another

unanimous decision to pass the amendment, Councilman Harvey Melear stated,

"I just think this is something we've needed for a long time. We've

had a lot of developers coming in using flood plain areas as part of the

development."

In addition

to other business, the City Council passed an ordinance raising the Mayor

and City Council's pay. More than 20 years has gone by without any adjustments

in pay. The Mayor's annual salary was raised from $1,800 per year to $3,000

per year and the Council member's salary rose from $900 per year to $1,500

per year. It was noted that these figures retain the ratio of two to one

between the Mayor and Council's salaries.

Finally an

increase in basic and expanded cable rates was discussed. In order to

help fund the expansion of the city's cable system, basic cable was raised

from $9.25 to $10.25 per month and expanded basic from $22.95 to $26.95

per month.