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<br />AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND
<br />THE PEACHTREE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE
<br />TO CONTROL THE DEVELOPMENT
<br />OF "RIG BOX" COMMERCIAL STRUCTURES
<br />AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
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<br />WHEREAS, The City of Peachtree City ("Peachtree City") was planned, designed,
<br />and built on the concept that there would not be one large central business area with a
<br />concentration of retail, other commercial, and office lIses but, rather, that there would be
<br />a few separate, distinct villages with neighborhood and smaller areas of retail, other
<br />commcrcial, and office uses separated by and sun'ounded by residential areas (the
<br />"Plan")~
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<br />WHEREAS, Peachtree City has strived to maintain this Plan throughout its
<br />developmental history;
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<br />WHEREAS, the infrastructure, including roads, cmt paths, utility lines, fire
<br />stations, and storm water structures, was built following the Plan;
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<br />. WHEREAS, many residents moved to Peachtree City because of the Plan and
<br />because the town appears dilTerent from many other suburban areas and these residents
<br />have invested money and time on their homes in reliance on the Plan;
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<br />WHEREAS, the current mix and size of commercial residential uses has, in lm'ge
<br />mcasure, remained true to the Plan and no one village or area of town has a concentration
<br />of commercial uses that is dispropOltionately higher than the other villages or areas of
<br />town;
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<br />WHEREAS, the current trend in retail shopping seems to be the concentration of
<br />shops into single, large stores with sizes approaching and far exceeding 100,000 square
<br />feet;
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<br />WHEREAS, the intent of retailers III building such larger stores IS the
<br />concentration of shoppers into fewer stores;
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<br />WHEREAS, this concentration of shoppers increases the demands on the local
<br />infrastructure by increasing the number of vehicles required to travel to fewer, and
<br />sometimes fmther-away areas, increasing the demands on the surrounding roads,
<br />increasing the demands on the surrounding cart paths, increasing the demands on the
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