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Planning panel approves Peachtree Professional Center landscape plan, encourages more native planting
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Summary
The commission approved a landscape plan for the Peachtree Professional Center at the Gates entry, finding the proposal meets local ordinance requirements (141 caliper inches canopy, 94 caliper inches understory); staff and applicant agreed to pursue more native species where practical.
The Peachtree City Planning Commission voted to approve the landscape plan for Peachtree Professional Center (Gates entry) after staff confirmed the proposal meets ordinance requirements and commissioners urged the applicant to increase native-species plantings where feasible.
City staff told the commission the project has 46,609 square feet of impervious surface requiring 141 caliper inches of canopy trees and 94 caliper inches of understory; staff said the plan proposes to meet both requirements. Staff reported five of the eight proposed canopy species are native to the Southeastern United States (62% native among proposed canopy species) and that native species represent about 41% of the total trees proposed.
Applicant representative Warren Elwell of All South said the plan builds on existing buffer vegetation and berms that provide screening from adjacent residences, and that proposed shrubs near a particular parking edge were selected to limit headlight impacts. City engineering review flagged a few tree-grouping placements that should be shifted to maintain clearance from underground pipes; staff said they will relay those adjustments to the applicant as a review comment.
A commissioner moved to approve the landscape plan "with the recommendations or encouragement to apply or to add as many native plants as possible to the plan," the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The motion included no alternative compliance requests; staff will continue technical review comments (tree location adjustments) as part of final plan processing.
The approval is conditioned on staff review comments and cooperation with the applicant on species selection and placement; commissioners reiterated a preference for substituting suitable native specimens where they meet design and maintenance objectives.
