Developers, restart your engines. Fayetteville is back in the rezoning business.

City Council Monday adopted a new land use plan and map and lifted its moratorium on rezoning and annexation applications. Originally enacted for a six-month period, the moratorium has lasted almost a year.

The hiatus was enacted to give planning staff and officials time to rewrite the land use plan and redraw the land use map, documents that help the Planning Commission and City Council make rezoning decisions.

Although the action opening the gates for rezonings comes at the beginning of November, it's too late for the November calendar of Planning Commission meetings. The first meeting where new rezoning requests can be heard will be Dec. 8, and the deadline to submit applications for that meeting is fast approaching Nov. 9.

Chief planner Jahnee Prince said the December meetings are expected to be long ones, with several rezoning and annexation requests as well as controversial development plans for a Pine Trail Road shopping center. Among agenda items:

A residential annexation and rezoning at Ga. Highway 314 and White Road;

A rezoning for senior-oriented homes at Grady Avenue and Beauregard Boulevard;

The second phase of Courtyard at Habersham subdivision;

An office-institutional rezoning next to First Baptist Church;

A commercial application for a hotel on Ga. Highway 85 across from New Hope Road;

A Waffle House and a tire store on Hwy. 85 south, and

Development plans for Lowe's.

In other action in an unusually brief 15-minute meeting Monday, the council:

Approved a new performance-based salary structure for city workers. The plan gives supervisors more specific criteria to evaluate employee performance in determining whether they will receive merit pay increases.

Approved new language for the city's franchise agreement with Atlanta Gas Light company.

The new agreement changes the way the franchise fees are calculated, based on deregulation of the natural gas industry.