Plans for building student apartments at University Estates have been canceled, but other projects within the development will be reviewed by Athens City Council Monday.
Plans to present the student apartments to the Athens Planning Commission were withdrawn Wednesday, said Joanne Priesly, chairwoman of the commission.
University Estates is an 846-acre development featuring condominiums, townhouses, single-family homes and will eventually contain an equestrian center, resort hotel and a retail center, among other amenities. It is located east of Richland Avenue at 9200 state Rt. 682.
Lantz Repp, Executive Vice President of University Estates, presented phase two of University Estates, which includes more apartments, single-family homes and additional housing units in the Villas at Highpointe Village.
Phase II was approved to be reviewed by the Athens City Council on the conditions that the developer redesign a few cul-de-sacs to meet city codes and that they solve some sewage problems.
Part of the Villas' waste water system does not work with gravity
preventing the water from flowing up and down the pipes, Repp said. Service-Safety Director Ray Hazlett is forming a committee to find a possible solution.
Repp said that he would like to push all three parts of the phase through at once so that construction could begin this winter.
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