Water park resort to get public hearing Monday

Wyndham buys Dolce; Great Wolf to air proposal at Planning Comm.; mayor enters private meeting but The Citizen reporter is kicked out

A public hearing on a rezoning request by Great Wolf Lodge Family Resorts to expand the facilities on the 38-acre site currently occupied by the Dolce Atlanta-Peachtree Hotel and Resort on Aberdeen Parkway to include a family-oriented indoor water park is scheduled for Feb. 9 before the Peachtree City Planning Commission.

Meanwhile, the Dolces local competitor the Wyndham Conference Center about a mile to the east may be about to become the only conference center in town.

The Wyndham Hotel Group announced on Feb. 2 that it had acquired all of Dolces properties in North America and Europe.

How that sale ultimately affects the Dolce-Great Wolf proposal has not been publicly announced. A Wyndham official said no immediate changes are expected in the operation of either facility.

This is a private meeting and Ben is not welcome. Those were the words of Peachtree City resident John Dufresne, the apparent spokesman for a group of Peachtree City residents prior to a meeting Tuesday night at the Dolce Atlanta-Peachtree Hotel and Resort with representatives of Great Wolf Family Resorts.

The Tuesday night meeting of neighboring subdivisions bordering the Dolce property was about to take place so that neighbors questions could be addressed by Great Wolf representatives.

However, Mayor Vanessa Fleisch apparently was welcome. She was seen by the departing reporter entering the private meeting between the homeowners association and the Great Wolf representative.

The Citizen reporter was there to attend and report on the meeting that was a precursor to the public hearing on the Great Wolf proposal that will be heard by the Peachtree City Planning Commission on Feb. 9.

Dufresne maintained that the meeting was private and that it had been decided that the news media could not be present.

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Water park resort to get public hearing Monday