Last thing last Tuesday, they
approved a newspaper insert to commemorate former ZBOA member Mike Hill,
who recently died.
ZBOA granted 5:1 a request in VAR-2017-06 for lots smaller than in the county’s Family ties requirement. Again 5:1 they granted the VAR-2017-07 request for a barn setback. For each of those cases, one person spoke for.
In “yet another case that came about due to a recent survey”, as County Zoner Carmella Braswell said, they Continue reading
![[Zoning Location Map]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/zboa/2017-06-06--zboa-packet/small/VAR-2017-09XRoeXZBAXStaffXReport-0008.jpg)
The board packet for today’s Zoning Board of Appeals meeting is
on the LAKE website, thanks to ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.
See also in a previous blog post the “>text version of the agenda.
Two of these items, VAR-2017-06 and VAR-2017-07, were tabled from the May ZBOA meeting.
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2:30 PM today (really today now on Tuesday):
welcome new member Victoria Copeland, a realtor,
for three setbacks, a family ties, and a family residential case
at the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA).
Update 2017-06-06: the board packet.
Here is the agenda:
Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator
300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 259-3563Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator
327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 671-2430AGENDA
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June 6, 2017
2:30 p.m.
All four are county cases for tomorrow 2:30 PM at the decision-making
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Zoning Board of Appeals, one each
lot width
and
family ties
and
two
about
setbacks.
The agenda and board packet are
on the LAKE website
courtesy of ZBOA board member Gretchen Quarterman.
Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator
300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 259-3563Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator
327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 671-2430AGENDA
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May 2, 2017
2:30 p.m.
Thanks to County Engineer Mike Fletcher for doing almost
what Gretchen asked
at the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 26 April 2016.
They rattled through the agenda with almost no questions, unanimously approving everything, including the $89,005 in emergency no-bid repairs. You’d have little idea why they were doing anything if you weren’t at the previous morning’s Work Session or you didn’t view the LAKE videos of the Work Session, in which we discovered for example it’s not Beatty Creek Bridge, rather Bevel Creek Bridge. Nonetheless, the County Engineer still said the creek name wrong.
Here are links to each of the LAKE videos of the Regular Session of April 26th 2016, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist. See also the LAKE videos of the Work Session of April 25th 2016, and the agenda.
They meet again this morning at 8:30 AM. Continue reading
The
FY 2017 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant was a popular topic yesterday morning, and
some Commissioners showed a little bit of scepticism about that
$89,005 in
emergency no-bid
repairs
on
the agenda for yesterday morning and for voting 5:30PM this evening.
Also $634,800 for a bridge we can’t tell where, and some unknown fraction of $1,663,888.78 to resurface a road that shouldn’t be used as a highway in the first place. Who’s in charge of budget planning for the county?
At the end, there was more from the County Manager about private road Carter Way: they discovered another property owner (“at least one”) after they agreed to spend $67,822 to fix a private road.
Here are links to each of the LAKE videos, with a few notes, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading
$89,005 in emergency no-bid repairs on the agenda for Monday morning and voting Tuesday evening.
Also $634,800 for a bridge we can’t tell where, and some unknown fraction of $1,663,888.78 to resurface a road that shouldn’t be used as a highway in the first place.
Who’s in charge of budget planning for the county?
Why is replacing the fiber optic data cable that connects the South Lowndes Data Center and the E911 Center an emergency repair for $61,020, when apparently the problem has been going on for years? Meanwhile, it’s good that it’s not an emergency that the 911 Center Core Network Equipment needs replacing for $38,621. Planning ahead is good. Is one of these items in the budget and the other not?
Another emergency not marked as such in the agenda is Continue reading