A project to improve traffic

flow at the intersection of Ga. Highway 85 and north Jeff Davis Drive

in Fayetteville is on the backburner now.

City Engineer Don Easterbrook

recommended that the project be scrapped since Lee Najjar, owner of the

Fayetteville Corners shopping center, has said he would only agree to

closing a curb cut to the shopping center if he is paid for it. The city

council previously asked Easterbrook to see if Najjar would accept another

outparcel at the shopping center in exchange for the curb cut, but Najjar

said he wasn't interested in that, Easterbrook said.

The Georgia Department of Transportation

would require that particular curb cut to be closed for the city's

project to be approved; the shopping center has another entrance at a

traffic light just north of the Jeff Davis/Hwy. 85 intersection.

Easterbrook also said the project

might create a backup problem on Hwy. 85 at the next two traffic lights.

Currently, traffic turning right off Jeff Davis onto Hwy. 85 has to wait

in the same lane as traffic wanting to go straight onto Ga. Highway 314.

A long-term plan for the intersection

is in Fayette County's transportation plan improvements to the entire

intersection would be considered at that time, Easterbrook said.

Council took no official action

on Easterbrook's report.

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