Busy commuters on Rockaway

Road won't have to face the added worry of a daycare center on one of

eastern Coweta County's busiest roads.

The County Commission unanimously

denied a conditional use permit for a center on a five-acre tract on Rockaway

Road.

Developer Donavan Gossett said

he wanted to open the center because it had always been his family's

plan to build a center so local kids would have someplace to stay. He

said the center would eventually have 150 kids, plus staff.

Gossett's proposal was

turned down by the county's Board of Zoning Appeals and planner Lynette

Wright also recommended the County Commission turn it down.

"There are no businesses

in and around this residential area located outside the city limits of

Senoia," she said.

Several Rockaway Road residents

also voiced their opposition to the center.

"I've lived there

since 1988, and I just don't want to see it there," said Mark

Willis.

Commissioner Vernon "Mutt"

Hunter agreed with the residents.

"I would be very reluctant

to approve anything that increases traffic on that road," he said.

The commission voted unanimously

to deny Gossett's request.