The Locust Grove City Council voted at its April 1 regular meeting to table a proposed rezoning for an industrial facility. The matter will now be heard at the May 6 meeting.

  Two separate applications were made, to amend the city’s future land use map for the 29-acre site on Jackson Street and rezone it from residential-agricultural to light manufacturing.

  The first phase of the proposed development is a 1.25-million-square-foot distribution facility with “truck courts, employee parking, improvements to Colvin Drive and all associate infrastructure,” according to a city staff report. The developers plan to use sewer service from the city and water from the Henry County Water Authority.

  If approved, construction would start this summer and take about 12 months. A second phase would be considered in the future with a separate rezoning application.

  In other business, the council voted to rezone 25.5 acres along South Bethany Road, north of its intersection with Mose Brown Drive, to R-2 (single-family residential). In a letter of intent to the city, the applicant proposed a 50-lot subdivision with a minimum lot size of 18,000 square feet and a minimum lot width of 100 feet.

  The entire area is within the limited development area of the Tussahaw Creek Reservoir Water Supply Watershed District, and is in a section of the city “dominated by the presence of Warren Holder Park and the Locust Grove Event Center,” according to city documents. Other residential land in the area includes unincorporated and larger RA-zoned tracts, while some in the general area have been rezoned R-2 and R-3. The vote to approve was unanimous.

  The council voted to approve an ordinance amendment that would allow self-storage facilities to be included among permitted and conditional uses in C-3 (heavy commercial) zoning districts.

  “Self-storage facilities that are fully enclosed, climate-controlled and accessible via internal doors shall be permitted outright in the C-3 district provided they are located on properties less than 5 acres and located within a Major Commercial, Mixed-Use Neighborhood /District, Service Commercial, or Gateway Commercial area on the latest FLUP,” according to the amendment.

  “Self-storage facilities that are not fully enclosed and/or accessible via doors on the exterior walls of the ability on properties less than 10 acres and located with a Service Commercial area on the latest FLUP shall be a conditional use pending review and approval by the City Council after a public hearing.”

  The measure was approved unanimously.

  The council voted to accept a $1,256,055 bid on a sewer extension between Bill Gardner Parkway and the Market Place at Locust Grove development area. Called the Market Place Line F Extension, it will extend sanitary sewer to areas farther north of the northern I-75 interchange area for development and offer relief in certain areas from existing aging lines around the same area from being overloaded, according to city officials.   Pricing was above original estimates, but officials said that would not likely get any better in the future. The contract was awarded to Myles Plumbing and Utility Contractors, Inc. in a unanimous vote.