In the never-ending battle against chain stores using architecture for branding purposes, Peachtree City has just about scored a victory with the design plans for the Target store coming to the Kedron Village retail center.

The game isn't over yet, as the council approved Target's architectural plan conditionally, so long as the company agrees to add a second display window to the right side of the store and awnings to two of the three display windows on the front near the entrance.

If Target doesn't agree, however, council's conditional approval will be void and the whole dance starts over again.

With a pergola just to the left of the store entrance and other features to "break up" the front view, there's little but the familiar red Target bulls-eye to identify the store, based on the drawings submitted by developer Faison Enterprises.

But the hang-up over the window on the right and the front awnings took center stage at Thursday night's council meeting, setting off a difference of opinion between several council members and Faison representative Mike Cohn.

Both sides haggled over the transcript of their last meeting, when council gave input to the first version of the architectural plans.

At one point, Councilman Murray Weed threatened to take the issue