By DAVE HAMRICK
Staff Writer

A controversial rezoning request that would allow a 61-home subdivision on 155 acres on Goza Road is back on the agenda for Thursday's Fayette County Commission meeting.

Thomas Busey has asked that the zoning of the parcel, at Goza and old Greenville roads, be changed from agricultural, which requires a minimum of five-acre lots, to a residential category that allows lots as small as two acres.

The county Planning Commission had unanimously recommended denial of the request after residents of nearby neighborhoods spoke in opposition, saying most of the property surrounding the site is zoned for five-acre and larger estates.

Staff recommended that the request be denied, but that the commission rezone the property for minimum three-acre lots.

Becky Morris of Integrated Science, engineers for the proposed subdivision, asked for and received postponement of the commission vote, saying the firm wants to make some changes to incorporate more green space into the neighborhood.

Commissioners warned her that any significant changes will require starting over again in the rezoning process.

The group will have a public hearing and vote on the request at its regular meeting Thursday at 7 p.m. at the County Administrative Complex.

Also on the agenda will be further discussion of whether the Dorsey House on Long Avenue, considered historically significant by local historians, should be torn down or preserved.

The house is in the way of the county's plans to build a new jail and court complex on 65 acres between Lee Street and Jimmie Mayfield Boulevard.

Disposition of three other houses on Long Avenue also will be discussed.

Packaged beer and wine sales permits for American Star Foods Inc. on Sandy Creek Road and for Coleman's Grocery on Ga. Highway 92 north also will be considered.

On the commission's consent agenda is a bid award of $528,430 for two fire engines and a tanker, to Central States Fire Apparatus.