The current draft is dated March 30, 2016. Come Monday and help update it further!
The next workshop for the Joint 2016 Lowndes County and Cities of Dasher, Hahira, Lake Park, Remerton, and Valdosta Comprehensive Plan Update will be on:
Monday, April 4, 2016
5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m.
Southern Georgia Regional Commission
327 W. Savannah Avenue
Valdosta, GeorgiaWe will continue reviewing the Issues and Opportunities.
The current draft of the plan is available at: Continue reading
This Reminder came in today, refreshingly explicitly mentioning agriculture. Note the different location, this time at the Health Dept. office after the Planning Commission meeting.
The next workshop for the 2016 Greater Lowndes Comprehensive Plan Update will be:
Monday, March 21, 2016
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 W. Savannah Avenue
Valdosta, GeorgiaAt this workshop we will Continue reading
LAKE videos of the Planning Commission Regular Session recommendations for
the CAC office, also heard yesterday morning at Lowndes County Commission Work Session and to be voted on tonight at LCC Regular Session.
At the same GLPC meeting, the Valdosta rezoning for (with small annexation)
for the grocery store and gas station;
See notes on the GLPC agenda
for why that could be a Wal-Mart.
See also
the LAKE videos of the previous week’s GLPC Work Session,
and the board packet materials for
REZ-2016-06 CAC on Skipper Bridge Road
and
“Gusto Development Corp” on Bemiss Road.
The LAKE videos of the GLPC Regular Session of 29 February 2016
are linked in below, followed by a video playlist.
Here’s a video playlist:
Videos: CAC office on Skipper Bridge Rd. + a Wal-Mart on Bemiss Rd?
Regular Session, Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 29 February 2016.
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The letters from “Gusto Development LLC” have an email address of kim@hutton.build,
confirming that
it’s really The Hutton Company
doing this work for Bassford Properties LLC; the same Hutton Company
that recently did work on Wal-Marts in Chattanooga, TN and Athens, GA.
Received today at 4:17 PM EST, which was before the GLPC meeting started. However, as I told the City Clerk when she also called on the telephone, I was planting potatoes at that time. I recommended to her, as I did earlier that same day to the County Planner, that the agenda packet items go online so neither city nor county staff nor citizens have to go through this rigamarole just to see what Commissioners are looking at. The actual Planning Commission meeting was quite brief; they recommended everything; LAKE videos to come. Meanwhile, see the LAKE videos of the previous week’s Work Session.
The materials she sent are on the LAKE website. Continue reading
Thanks to Lowndes County Planner Jason Davenport’s expeditious
response to my open records request with
the packet materials for REZ-2016-03-06,
for tonight’s Planning Commission meetin,
we now know
this proposed CAC rezoning is at the NW corner of Skipper Bridge Road and Stafford Wright Road, about one acre of the
113.88 acre parcel 0106 232 owned by
JEV Duck Pond LLC, in the watershed of Cherry Creek, which flows to the Withlacoochee River.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the county recently approved plans
to pave Stafford Wright Road.
The County Planner mentioned that in the agenda sheet summary that
county road classifications (local rural, minor collector, etc.)
are stated in the
Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan.
Back in 2009 when that plan was last updated, the County Engineer said it
“…works as a guide for development and potential use changes in property.”
GREATER LOWNDES PLANNING COMMISSION
AGENDA ITEMSUBJECT: Rezoning Case REZ—2016-06 Continue reading
Finally with the agenda for tonight’s Planning Commission, case codes and an address for the 3-in-1 Bemiss Road rezoning, but still no address for the CAC Skipper Bridge Road rezoning, and none of the board packet: no maps, text, nothing else on Lowndes county’s website, for tonight’s 6PM Planning Commission Regular Session.
That Valdosta
three-part
case
includes
an annexation request.
The agenda says it’s for Gusto Development, but no such company
is registered with the Georgia Secretary of State.
Maybe they mean
Gusto GA Valdosta (Guest), LLC,
registered “12/8/2015” with Principal Office Address: 736 Cherry St., Chattanooga, TN, 37402, USA.
That’s the address of
The Hutton Company, “We Know Dirt; Real Estate Development Construction”.
The land is owned by Bassford Properties LLC,
as noted in the
previous post with the LAKE videos of the previous week’s Work Session,
which shows what little the public was allowed to know,
such as that it’s for a grocery store and a gas station.
This might be a clue as to which company:
Alex Green, timesfreepress.com, 9 November 2014,
3 new grocery stores coming to Chattanooga, and they may be Wal-Marts, Continue reading
So well attended there weren’t enough handouts,
as remarked on by Greg Odom,
who
later also said the proposed Comprehensive Plan Update didn’t have any plans for canopy roads, or roads on existing rights of way like in Virginia:
“For the past 25 years there has not been a healthy attitude
about people who want to maintain dirt roads.
There has been an attitude of let’s pave everything,
and let’s pave it in an outrageous way….”
Last night’s meeting was billed Continue reading
No agenda available to the public,
not on county’s website,
and not available at the door at Monday’s Planning Commission Work Session.
They didn’t even say the rezoning case numbers.
Apparently the Planning Commissioners had a board packet with some materials,
but the citizens and taxpayers did not get to see it,
and the City Planner said the electronic version would be much different.
They haven’t even put a sign up on
the Lowndes County property.
The
Valdosta rezoning
is a pretty big deal, with a grocery store and a gas station
for the unnamed applicant, who apparently is Continue reading
For an item
also on the Valdosta agenda tonight,
lack of transparency and concern for trees perplexed a prominent local citizen at the Planning Commission,
as you can see in
the LAKE video of the
25 January 2016 GLPC Regular Session.
Glenn Gregory said:
I think y’all might have a site plan, but the public does not have a site plan.
Commissioner Celine Godwin recommended Gregory take his transparency recommendation to the Valdosta City Council. We shall see, at 5:30 PM tonight. Gretchen will be there with the LAKE video camera.
Jason Stewart, VDT, 29 January 2016, Gregory opposes cemetery proposal, Continue reading
Following
the email announcement about the Comprehensive Plan,
I showed up late, expecting no formal presentation and
a typical SGRC tables-and-easels mill-about meeting,
and found the Planning Commission and staff in their usual seats.
Turns out they were there for their
Work Session agenda;
see the
LAKE videos.
As you can see in this video of the first part of the meeting,
there were citizen questions from Valdosta City Council Sandra Tooley and from me. Continue reading