The Athens-Clarke Planning Commission signed off Thursday on new locations for a fraternity house on West Broad Street and the restaurants Five & Ten and Dondero's.

The planning commission recommended that the Athens-Clarke Commission approve all three developments. Final votes are scheduled for Aug. 6.

The Phi Kappa Tau house, slated for a former restaurant between Newton and Finley streets, won approval over objections from nearby residents.

Ellen Harris, a teacher who lives on Dearing Street about a block away, said early-morning partying at fraternity houses already wakes her up, making her job more difficult.

"We will hear," she said. 'We will call the police. We will feel bad about it. I'd just like to see, in Clarke County, a little more attention paid to noise."

Developer Jon Williams said the location is appropriate because it's zoned commercial and surrounded by motels and an apartment building. However, it's just a block from Reese Street and three blocks from Cobbham, residential neighborhoods that are already dealing with noise and an influx of students due to the Kappa Alpha house on Hancock Avenue, Cobbham resident Clint McCrory said.

The Phi Kappa Tau house will have a full-time manager and no lawn, so socializing will be kept indoors, Williams said. Harris said she appreciates those concessions but is still apprehensive.

Declining membership forced Phi Kappa Tau to disband, but the fraternity reformed in 2010 and rented a house on South Milledge Avenue. It's seeking a permanent location.

Plans call for renovating the restaurant building into a banquet hall, including landscaping and building a new facade. A second phase will add a second story with bedrooms. The whole project is scheduled to be finished in September 2013, Williams said.

The planning commission also voted to allow Five & Ten and Dondero's on North Milledge Avenue to move into bigger buildings nearby.

Hugh Acheson, the award-winning chef, author and television personality, wants to move Five & Ten into a building that most recently housed an antiques store at 1073 S. Milledge Ave., around the corner from his current location.

Planning commissioners were less kind to developers who want to build 13 cottages, a yogurt or coffee shop and offices in place of a small strip mall and former mobile home park at 2002-2025 South Milledge Avenue. They told the developers to come back with a plan that includes fewer bedrooms and more trees.