Haverty's will get its

truck storage as the Fayetteville City Council built in some flexibility

in the development of the area.

Officials of the furniture

store, located at Ga. Highway 85 north and New Hope Road, have agreed

to locate more plantings and trees in the area to screen the trucks from

view of adjacent homes and the next-door Johnny Carino's restaurant.

If the landscaping is extensive

enough, a proposed brick wall to screen some of the trucks may not be

needed, said councilman Walt White. With that theory in mind, council

gave the city's planning staff the power to determine which is more

appropriate at a later date.

Rawson Haverty, vice president

of the company, said none of the trucks parked overnight will run continuously,

as previously alleged by a nearby resident. Some trucks are parked overnight

so the furniture inside can be delivered the next day to local customers,

Haverty said.

The Fayetteville and Southlake

Haverty's stores are the only ones on the south metro side of Atlanta.

The trucks are limited by city

ordinance to being operated from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. In addition to adding

more landscaping, Haverty's will also be required to add sidewalks

along Ga. Highway 85 and perhaps along New Hope Road.

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