Kedron
homeowners encouraged by judge's opinion in Target suit
Officers of the Lake Kedron
Community Association considered it a victory Tuesday morning when a Fayette
County Superior Court judge admonished the developer trying to build a
Target store at Kedron Village for not exhausting due process before bringing
the issue to court.
Judge Christopher C. Edwards
said he wasn't sure it was legally possible for North Carolina-based
FCD Development (Faison) to skip over City Council consideration and take
the issue straight to the courts, and ordered the developer to bring its
site plan to the council for consideration.
The Kedron project is on the
agenda for the next council meeting March 4, according to City Manager
Bernard McMullen. Pending that outcome, a previously scheduled follow-up
court date of March 8 could see the issue back before Edwards in a matter
of days.
Faison skipped the City Council
step in the approval process last October, after the city's planning
commission unanimously denied the original site plan for a 125,000-square-foot
Target and 140,000 square feet of additional retail.
That decision was largely influenced
Park, a dead-end road that bisects collector street Georgian Park opposite
the commercial tract.
The Lake Kedron Community Association
has aggressively fought the proposal, filing numerous court papers in
support of the city's ordinance that bans "big box" retailers
like Target in excess of 32,000 feet.
Tim Wedemyer and John Hedge,
leaders of the homeowners' group, appeared reinvigorated Wednesday
council denial of the plans, which is a possibility, will just send it
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