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Due to having knee surgery and finding myself with little to no income over the last year and half I have try to obtain help paying my power bill, and after exhausting all revenues in the area tried Coastal Plains and Lamp services. The lamp people was very rude and had a total lack of provisional matters at all. The lady dismissed me very quickly and informed me they only help the homeless in the area. So I went to Coastal Plains “Both Locations” and was told no funds existed until the end of the year. I ask the receptions to have the manager call me and I yet receive a call. This was however the second time I experience this as last year I ask for help and experience the same thing. My question is why have all these locations and buildings and people on the payroll if you can’t even fund your projects. I have seen so much waste of government money , from being in the military on first hand accounts.
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question and/or suggestion
It’s hard to keep track of all the locations where the zoning and rezoning issues actually are on the county map.
Is it possible to have an interactive county map on the site?
The map could have stick pins showing the locations of each of the issues. Maybe you could then click on the stick pin and go to the info package.
Or maybe each discussion could have a link called “Where is it?” that would open to a county map with the location marked.
BTW, I love the info you provide to the people of the area!!
Those are good ideas.
Who really should be doing that (and posting the board packets)
of course is the Lowndes County government.
LAKE does include in its reports images of the maps the county (and the cities)
use in rezoning cases.
Those do include a Zoning Location Map.
Not as good as what you’re suggesting, but something.
If we have time, we may do a google map such as you suggest. -jsq