WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — We're still waiting for Warner Robins city leaders to make a decision on the Houston Lake and Corder Road rezoning.
Some neighbors shared this week they're afraid it could be the city's way of silencing their opinions.
However, leaders say that's not the reason it's been removed from the agenda twice this year.
"This has not been, a fast-tracked plan," Oliver Bateman shared.
He is a broker at The Bateman Group and Sujano LLC's realty agent. He says the developers are paying attention to every detail.
"There's been a lot of thought and input and a lot of vetting by the city and the staff and we hope the drawing reflects their comments," Bateman shared.
His clients want to rezone from R-1, single-family housing, to PUD, Planned Urban Development. This would mean that developers would have to stick to their submitted plans.
"We were given a new version of the plan on the same day of our meeting," Darin Curtis said.
Curtis is the city planning and zoning manager. He says because of the recent submission, the city and developers decided to strike it from Tuesday's agenda.
"When we receive a new version of the plan, we have to allow ourselves ample time to review it," Curtis shared.
The drawings include stormwater plans throughout the development, a privacy fence buffer in front of the Harper's Ridge Subdivision and other green space details.
"There's a townhome component and there's an apartment component as well," Curtis shared.
The plans say there would be 76 townhomes with 118 two or three-story apartments.
With neighbors sharing concerns for traffic, and water and sewer capacity, we asked Curtis what the city is doing.
"Those specific studies aren't specifically conducted until civil plans have been submitted," he said.
He says rezoning to PUD would give the city more control over the project.
"We're very conscious of the existing conditions in that area and certainly anything we would forward to the planning commission or mayor and council wouldn't be until we've conducted that very critical review, so we're certainly keeping the residents in mind in that regard," he shared.