After being tabled at the last council meeting, Crescent Communities is again asking the Fayetteville City Council to annex and rezone 12 acres off Ga. Highway 54 East to allow construction of 273 apartments.

The units — with four of the five buildings slated to rise four stories high and the fifth to be three stories — will be accessed from new entrances off Weatherly Drive and Knight Way.

Council will consider the request at the April 18 meeting at 6 p.m. at Fayetteville City Hall on Stonewall Avenue.

“Staff is of the opinion the request to amend the Comprehensive Plan and Future Land Use Map does not meet the objectives of the current plan and recommends the request be denied,” according to the staff study of the proposal. “Although the subject tract has been vacant for several years, as currently zoned the subject tract could be developed for office, retail or a combination of similar uses which already exist along the Hwy 54 East corridor. Existing conditions support denial of the rezoning request.”

The city’s Planning and Zoning Commission voted in February to recommend denial of the developer’s request.