The Valdosta City Council plans to sue big pharma over opioid addiction. The Thursday agenda also includes two rezonings (one withdrawn), and two water trail resolutions: one for the Alapaha River and one for the Withlacoochee and Little Rivers. For the rezonings, see the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting.
AGENDA
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REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, April 5, 2018
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
The missing agenda finally showed up sometime around when the Work Session started yesterday.
Chris Yarborough resigned from the
Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Disabilities Board (DBHDD) and
Kelley Saxon has applied.
There are
four computer purchase items
and one bid for two
1 Ton Dual Wheel Truck with Service Body for the Utilities Department.
LAKE videos of the Work Session will follow shortly, and Gretchen is on her way with the LAKE video camera to the 5:30 PM voting Regular Session.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, February 26, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, February 27, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
They
added and agenda item for
7.p. Solicitor-General’s VOCA Grant Renewal; yes, really, the agenda was so long that’s sub-item letter P and the meeting was 51 and a half minutes long.
Longest at seven minutes was 6a. REZ-2017-11 Arrow Engineering, in which the County Commissioners ignored the Planning Commission’s recommendation to deny, and the County Planner’s observation the previous morning that the applicants would accept one acre. Instead they approved 2.5 acres with no conditions as Office Institutional (OI) in an area with no other instances of that.
At six minutes, 7.n. Georgia Power- VisionFirst was about putting $25,000 to hire an unnamed consultant for a joint project for unspecified results.
Update 2017-11-22: According to Chairman Bill Slaughter, the consultant is VisionFirst Advisors out of Tallahassee.
Did they mean the sinkhole-infested Mission Creek instead of 7.k. Grant of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Mission Point?
Five minutes included questions from the Chairman and resulted in a split vote and a stern warning on 7.i. Beer, Wine & Liquor License – Liquor Barn, 3990 N. Valdosta Rd.
One of the two road abandonments, 7.a. Abandonment of Lane Road and a Portion of Sheavette Road, got a very rare split vote, with Commissioner Clay Griner voting alone against.
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Quite a long Work Session yesterday morning,
more than half an hour.
Surprisingly, the longest was
Liquor Barn’s Wine & Liquor License;
apparently their state and county licenses don’t match.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM, in their Regular Session.
Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the agenda in the previous post, especially about 6a.REZ-2017-11 Arrow Engineering, R-A and E-A to O-I, ~2.5 acres, which is now apparently really for 1 acre. Continue reading
Stafford Wright Road is getting its 12″ water main, connecting all the way from Spring Creek subdivision off of Studstill Road to Val Del Road. That’s Nelson Hill on the center left and Foxborough lower left: subdivisions like that are what to expect on Stafford Wright Road soon.
Map:
VALORGIS. Green is Lowndes County sewer line; blue is water mains.
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A backlog since June is a lot of cases, and in the interests of time
I have not watched the whole thing; instead I’m posting now.
A
Summary of Actions
should appear soon on the Valdosta website for
the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals.
See also
the agenda
and board packet,
is
which is on the LAKE website,
courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.
Gretchen also set up the LAKE video camera behind the board this time.
Links to the two LAKE videos appear below, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
They haven’t met since June, and today the decision-making Zoning Board of Appelas has the longest agenda ever. The packet, courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman, is on the LAKE website.
Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
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They
welcomed
Ross Berry,
the new CEO of South Georgia Medical Center,
and he spoke briefly.
Last minute agenda addition:
6.f. Lowndes County Accountability Court Grant and Match
Citzen Judy Havercamp
spoke about the animal shelter.
Citizen Shirley Garlan spoke for her neighborhood,
asking to connect to county water.
They spent by far the longest time (almost 20 minutes including public participation) on the New Statenville Highway rezoning for a Dollar General, which they finally approved with conditions, including what County Planner Jason Davenport said was an unprecedented condition on lighting. For this item, see also the the LAKE videos of the preceding Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting.
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The Planning Commission welcomed a new member,
Mrs. Vicki Rountree representing Hahira,
but neither
Valdosta’s
nor
Lowndes County’s websites have her listed; they both still list Ted Raker
for Hahira.
They unanimously recommended a split rezoning to conservation and E-A for REZ-2017-04 Jeffrey Taibl, and they unanimously recommended REZ-2017-05 Cody Califf’s rezoning of agricultural to residential development. Nobody spoke for or against either Lowndes County case, both of which are on the Lowndes County Commission agenda for this Monday and Tuesday.
The front yard was the main concern on the Valdosta case about the CU-2017-02 Personal Care Home on Hollywood Street, which they recommended unanimously after adding a condition to keep staff from parking on the street. The other two Valdosta cases involved the Inner Perimeter Road Corridor Overlay District of Valdosta’s Land Development Regulations. CU-2017-03 Flint Equipment wants to be an additional John Deere dealer, and Planning Commissioners unanimously approved their request, which had already been slightly reduced by city staff. VA-2017-07 Sapelo Sound Investments wants “signage ability like their commercial neighbors” and Planning Commissioners unanimously recommended that.
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Two of the three
Valdosta cases for tonight involve the
Inner Perimeter Road Corridor Overlay District
of Valdosta’s
Land Development Regulations.
The other Valdosta case is about
a Personal Care Home on Hollywood Street.
The two
Lowndes County cases on
‘
the Planning Commission agenda
are opposite:
REZ-2017-05 Cody Califf wants the usual rezoning of agricultural
to residential development,
but
REZ-2017-04 Jeffrey Taibl wants to return to Estate Agricultural.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
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Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Monday, April 24, 2017 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue