PTC council holds public hearing on multi-family rezonings

2012-11-07

By Pat Cooper

The Peachtree City Council will be holding a public hearing at its Thursday night meeting to reaffirm the multi-family rezoning moratorium.
In 1999 the council adopted an ordinance that accepted no applications to zone or rezone property to any designation that would allow the development of the property as multi-family. Property owners requesting this type of zoning must first request that council lift the moratorium as it applies to their property before submitting the rezoning request to staff. Multi-family includes apartments, townhouses, duplexes, condominiums and assisted living facilities.
Since the moratorium expires in January, the council has to decide whether to keep it, or ditch in favor of allowing multi--family units to be developed in Peachtree City.
According to city officials, the only real affect is that by reaffirming the moratorium, the city would be losing possible impact fees associated with multi-family developments.