RaceTrac’s latest bid to win approval of a 24/7 gas station and convenience store on a Civil War site outside Atlanta will have to wait another 30 days. The Cobb County Planning Commission voted Tuesday to seek additional information on traffic and potential environmental impacts on a nearby elementary school and day care center. It urged the company to have another meeting with neighborhoods that oppose the rezoning of the former Robert and Eliza McAfee parcel. The home -- which briefly served as the headquarters for a Union general and was in the middle of cavalry movements and clashes in summer 1864 – last spring was moved to adjoining Cherokee County after a long effort to save it from destruction. -- READ MORE
