Despite staff recommendation against, the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) by a 3:2 vote recommended approval of the car wash across from a car wash.

As you can see by those numbers, several Planning Commissioners were absent. of the one Valdosta item Monday evening, and approval of the two Hahira items, one with conditions.

Collage @ GLPC 27 November 2023

Gretchen spoke in favor of 5. HA-2023-04 Chancy Drugs (205 East Main Street) variance for THC sales: “When this law was made, it was made exactly for communities like Hahira, where we have this one drugstore.”

Gretchen Quarterman spoke for the Chancy Drugs variance request

Nobody spoke against that variance. The Planning Commissioners recommended approval unanimously.

They also recommended approval of the other Hahira item, and they approved their 2024 calendar, although the audience and you did not get to see it.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the agenda and board packet.

• 1. Call to Order, Pledge, Invocation
  

  Video.

• 1. Call to Order (con’t)
  

  Video.

• 2. Minutes for Approval
  

  Video.

• 3. CU-2023-04 – Crown Development, 806 Baytree, CUP for Carwash
  

  Video.

  Just what Lowndes County needs (not) another car wash. And this one is across the street from a car wash. And, there are vacant/abandoned carwashes already.

  It was a split vote 3-2.

• 4. HA-2023-03 Mindy Herring (505 South Church Street) CUP for Hair Salon
  

  Video.

• 5. HA-2023-04 Chancy Drugs (205 East Main Street) variance for THC sales
  

  Video.

• Other Business / Meeting Adjournment
  

  Video.

  They approved the 2024 calendar but the calendar was not shared with the public.

Here’s a LAKE video playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiFb60kf3II3kUKC-eqFIf-z

All approved: Valdosta CUP, 2 Hahira items @ GLPC Videos 2023-11-27
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, Monday, November 27, 2023.
Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).

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