Some hard-to-see plans were projected for the Flannigan James Road and Smith Street rezoning,
but they are merely speculative and would not bind the developer, while they would bind the Commission to the C-G zoning,
so you can hear and see in these LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s
Lowndes County Commission Work Session.
They vote this evening at 5:30 PM in the Regular Session.
This morning at the Work Session, for voting tomorrow evening at the Regular Session,
the Flannigan James Road rezoning is back on the Lowndes County Commission Agenda,
after being
tabled
May 16, 2022.
Looks like county staff have worked around to supporting it this time;
don’t know what the neighbors who petitioned against it think.
There’s also a GDOT maintenance agreement for the Walkers Crossing Roundabout,
the second reading of the Abandonment of a Portion of Boring Pond Lane,
and adopting water and sewer infrastructure for West Schoolhouse Road Subdivision, which “is located in the Lake Park area off of
Schoolhouse Pond Road, Payton Place, Burnt Pine Drive, and Timber Wind Circle and has a total of 31 lots.”
The county as usual pretends none of the above will cost anything.
The two big budget items are for communications: Continue reading →
This morning the Lowndes County Commission spent 3 minutes discussing insurance,
mostly about defensive driving to get rates down.
And 2 minutes discussing the previously-tabled
6.a. REZ-2022-13 Hunter Property,
which seems to be really for 2 acres, not 7 acres.
Rezoning notice signs are posted on both adjacent roads.
The whole meeting took seven minutes.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item of this morning’s meeting, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also the Continue reading →
Back this morning on the Lowndes County Commission agenda,
after being tabled two weeks ago because of confusion over 2 or 7 acres,
and over road frontage without rezoning signs,
the packet pages for
REZ-2022-13 Hunter Property
are the same as last time, except for a better scan of the survey plat.
John Hogan wants to be reappointed to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA)
and J. Elveta Miller wants to be reappointed to the
South Georgia Regional Library Board (SGRLB).
There’s a beer and wine license.
And the big-dollar item is
$898,852.00 to the Association of County Commissioners of Georgia (ACCG)
for property and liability insurance.
Chairman Bill Slaughter was absent,
so the meeting was presided over by Vice-Chair Scottie Orenstein.
They approved everything unanimously.
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 Continue reading →
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Yesterday morning at their 11-minute Work Session the Lowndes County Commission and staff ran through everything as fast as the items could be read off.
Vice-Chair Scottie Orenstein presided in the absence of Chairman Bill Slaughter.
No rezonings this week, but a board appointment,
budget adoption, money shuffling for the DUI Court,
and two water and sewer infrastructure adoptions that,
as usual,
Lowndes County pretends will not cost the taxpayers money.
Plus a mower for Public Works and some cyber security stuff.
All at the Monday morning Work Session
and the Tuesday 5:30 PM Regular Session.
Here is
the agenda.
A LAKE open records request has gone in for the board packet.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2022, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Flags are to fly half-mast Sunday across the entire state of Georgia at the state Capitol and in Lowndes County for the late Sonny Vickers, whose absence loomed large over the
Valdosta City Council meeting.
The funeral will be
3 PM Sunday.
There will be a
special election for his Council seat,
as required by the city charter.
Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item with a few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
the agenda.
The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request,
is
on the LAKE website.
Some of the materials are out of order (I don’t know why), so if you don’t find something at first, keep looking.
Cave in at manhole on Sustella Ave. along One Mile Branch.
Inspection discovered 525 feet also in danger of collapse.
Due to emergency, Utilities selected a contractor without bids.
Main input line to the plant, so “pretty critical.”
Replaced 5500 feet of cement line with epoxy line.
Emergency contractor selection with no bids.
Work already completed April 6th.
$259,430.86.
Council Tim Carroll pointed out that this is David Frost’s last Council meeting,
and tomorrow is his last day. Applause, and mutual thanks from Frost.
Gregory Williams, 806 West Gordon Street, said he was a son of Sonny Vickers’ work.
He proposed renaming Cherry Street to Sonny Vickers Lane.
Vickers always lived on Cherry Street.
Gracie Bacon, 708 Holly Drive, said three houses had junk cars and trash that made it difficult to breathe.
She invited Council to come see for themselves, then do something about it.
John S. Quarterman, Suwannee Riverkeeper, thanked the city for fixing two sewer lines and installing a trash boom at Sugar Creek.
He reminded them that there was more to do.
For example, that trash on Holly Drive probably washes into waterways.
More than that, fast food parking lots need trash cans and to keep trash from escaping.
The city has ordinances, so if they don’t do it, the city can fine them.
And the city should put trash cans on its own parking lots to set an example.
He invited Mayor and Council to a chainsaw cleanup on the Withlacoochee River.
Council Vivian Miller-Cody said
the funeral for Sonny Vickers will be 3:00 PM this Sunday at
Woodlawn Forrest Church of Christ, 1515 Barack Obama Blvd.
If there’s no room, people can go to
Harrington Funeral Home, 713 Lake Park Road, 229-242-2828.
She said the family requests no flowers, rather donations to a cancer foundation
which they are starting in honor of Council Sonny Vickers.
Mayor Scott James said the state proclamation from the governor
is to fly flags throughout the state at half mast this Sunday.
Standing ovation.
RIP Sonny Vickers + two sewer lines fixed @ VCC 2022-06-23
Valdosta City Council Regular Session, June 23, 2022, Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia.
Videos by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).
-jsq
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