The entire board packet for the November 2021 Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting is on the LAKE website now, received in response to a LAKE open records request.
For the six county rezonings, there is more in the board packet for the Lowndes County Commission December meetings.
See also Continue reading
Update 2021-12-12: Packet: Four big + 2 small county rezonings, four Valdosta rezonings, 3 of them CUP @ GLPC 2021-11-29.
The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission unanimously recommended denial of rezoning for a rezoning on Miller Bridge Road, outside any appropriate character area, but one of them frequently suggested trying 2.5-acre lots instead of 1-acre lots.
Another subdivision, on Rocky Ford Road, which was opposed by the Development Authority, got a split recommendation for denial, with that same Commissioner abstaining.
All the other items got unanimous approval.
One of the rezonings was actually to agricultural so the owner can farm it.
![[Two rezonings recommended against]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2021-11-29--glpc-videos/many.jpg)
Two rezonings recommended against
The owners spoke for REZ-2021-28 on Miller Bridge Road, with the usual insistence that everybody wants to live in the north part of the county and you just can’t stop growth and sprawl. Continue reading
Update 2021-12-01: Videos: An inappropriate rezoning unanimously opposed, but beware return with different acreage @ GLPC 2021-11-29
There’s been alarm in the northwest part of Lowndes County for a month about the 34-acre Miller Bridge Road rezoning. And there are three more big rezonings on the agenda tonight for the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission, on Rocky Ford Road, Val Tech Road, and Seminole Drive.
Those are Lowndes County cases, plus two more small rezonings.
The four Valdosta cases include one “CUP for very high density MultiFamily residential in C-C zoning” on West Hill Avenue, which sounds like a better idea than more sprawl out into the county.
Below is the agenda plus some maps from the Lowndes County Tax Assessors.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
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~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~
~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~
Monday, November 22, 2021 5:30 P.M. Work Session
Monday, November 29, 2021 5:30 P.M. Regular Session
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
Only one citizen showed up to speak: David Houtz, who asked Commissioners not to change the Character Area Maps, and said he had not seen the latest plan. SGRC’s Elizabeth Backe handed him a copy; she also presented a summary of the process at the beginning of the meeting, and clarified process later.
You can see in this LAKE video a discussion between Valdosta and Hahira City Planner Matt Martin and Lowndes County Commissioner Scottie Orenstein about changes to the Hahira Character Area map is not recorded in the minutes, as well as the rest of the 17-minute meeting.
Commissioners discussed the Comprehensive Plan Update again this morning in their Work Session, and they will approve it tomorrow afternoon at 5:30 PM in their Regular Session. Continue reading
Update 2021-10-25: Agenda and Hahira case.
According to its schedule on the City of Valdosta website, the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) meets as usual tomorrow, the last Monday of the month.
When: 5:30pm to 6:30pm, Monday, October 25, 2021
Where:
South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, GA 31601
That’s at the exact same time as the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session, which normally would be Tuesday at 5:30 PM, but that time slot is taken by the Public Hearing to Review and Transmit the 2021 Comprehensive Plan Update.
Lowndes County’s website has nothing in its calendar for this meeting, and no agenda is posted.
I have sent a request for agenda and board packet to the city and county Clerks and Planners. While the other four cities in Lowndes County may also have items on the agenda, Valdosta and Lowndes County traditionally handle the agenda.
If I get anything in time before the meeting tomorrow evening, I will post it.
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Two weeks ago, the Lowndes County Commission approved everything unanimously, except 6.c. Consideration of Service Delivery Strategy Agreement Language, for which Commissioner Clay Griner voted against. He didn’t say why.
![[Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2021-09-28--lcc-videos/many.jpg)
Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the agenda and board packet, and the draft minutes of the previous morning’s Work Session and of this Regular Session.
At least part of the long-contentious Service Delivery Strategy (SDS) has been resolved between Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta. The county has agreed not to fund county roads using property taxes from incorporated taxpayers, that is, taxpayers within city limits of any of the five cities in the county.
Plus the county is spending a million dollars on communications equipment, road graders, and an architect for a library addition.
![[County roads not to be paid out of city property taxes]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2021-09-27--lcc-packet/many.jpg)
County roads not to be paid out of city property taxes
Almost half an hour on the church on Woodlawn Drive (sidewalks and building size), eleven minutes on the personal care home on Slater Street, and three minutes each on the RV sales expansion and the Lake Park Zoning Ordinance amendments. That was a slack evening for the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC), at 47 minutes total.
![[Welcome, Lake Park, RV expansion, Board]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2021-08-30--glpc-videos/many.jpg)
Welcome, Lake Park, RV expansion, Board
GLPC recommends. The Lowndes County Commission is already meeting about its items. Lake Park and Valdosta Mayor and Council will decide their items.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the agenda. Continue reading
Update 2021-09-13: LAKE videos.
For Monday evening it’s a light agenda for the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission.
One curious item is REZ-2021-14 LAR Properties of Lake Park, 5359 Mill Store Rd., 0200 292A, ±12.76 ac., P-D to C-H, County Utilities. That appears to be a vacant lot behind an RV store.
![[Map: LAR Properties, Lowndes County Tax Assessors]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2021-08-30--glpc-agenda/lar-properties.jpg)
Map: LAR Properties, Lowndes County Tax Assessors
Google maps thinks the RV store is Day Bros RV, and their own website agrees. But if you go to google streetview, the sign out front says Alliance Coach RV Sales & Service.
According to the Lowndes County Tax Assessors, Day Bros RV Sales LLC sold both lots Continue reading
Here are LAKE videos of each agenda item of the Monday, July 26, 2021, Regular Session of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC), followed by a LAKE video playlist. The big item was 5. VA-2021-16 (pt 1) Uvalde Land Co. Deannex 310 acres from the City of Valdosta.
See also the agenda and Deannexation east of Withlacoochee River linked to subdivision west @ GLPC 2021-07-26. LAKE videos of the following Lowndes County Commission and Valdosta City Council meetings will also be up soon.
![[Rezonings with LAKE logo]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2021-11-29--glpc-packet/packet.jpg)
![[Four big rezonings]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2021-11-29--glpc-packet/many.jpg)
![[Citizen David Houtz, Elizabeth Backe of SGRC, Houtz receives plan, Sparse audience, City Planner Matt Martin, Commissioners Orenstein and Marshall, Commissioners and VDT reporter]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/loco/2021-10-26--public-hearing-videos-comprehensive-plan/many.jpg)
![[GLPC Schedule]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2021-10-25--glpc-agenda/glpc-schedule.jpg)
![[Map, Sales, Business, Agenda]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/glpc/2021-08-30--glpc-agenda/many.jpg)