2:30 PM today:
parking on a
triangular lot in Lake Park
and a variance to
re-establish a mobile home in Valdosta
make a light
agenda
for the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals.
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
November 1, 2016
2:30 p.m.
Requested at the work session two weeks ago,
and
now on
the agenda for Monday morning,
a resolution for an arts district.
That and
reappoint Wild Adventures GM Molly Deese to the Tourism Authority,
a
public hearing on the 2016 updates to the Greater Lowndes Comprehensive Plan (even though they tabled it last time),
and the usual
Bid,
surplus,
and
subdivision infrastructure sorts of items.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2016, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Two weeks ago,
County Manager Joe Pritchard announced that
Commissioner Joyce Evans is now serving as Vice Chairman,
yes, the
resolution to approve the VSU bonds
was requested by the
South Regional Joint Development Authority (SRJDA),
and
John Stevens is the new VDT reporter.
Citizen Shirley Moore said she’d like a connection to
county water and sewer.
They tabled the
Comprehensive Plan update, apparently because the Commissioners wanted to
“dig into it deeper”.
The rest was mostly approving what they
already discussed the previous morning.
They meet again Monday morning.
Below are links to each LAKE video with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.
We asked Nydia Tisdale to say a few words about her recent legal situation,
and
here’s what she said.
See
previous post for context of what she’s talking about,
and of course Nydia’s website
About Forsyth
and her
YouTube channel.
![[CY2-7, Aerial, Stewart County, GA]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/ferc/2016-10-17--stt-variance/small/20161017-5157-31740520-0050.jpg)
Here are
small, big, huge, and PDF maps from Sabal Trail’s variance request yesterday
to FERC asking for more contractor yards, to
drill under a dam in Terrell County, GA,
and to change its easement on a tributary of Hog Creek (tributary of Okapilco Crek)
in Colquitt County, GA, in
FERC
Accession Number: 20161017-5157,
“Sabal Trail Transmission, LLC Request for Notice to Proceed and Variance Request under CP15-17.”
It includes a notice of Administrative Appeal Process by the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, and it looks like the deadline has not expired. Continue reading
Yes, the Industrial Authority is meeting today at 5:30 PM
about BRAT, South Georgia Alliance, and
National Manufacturing Day,
before it meets
tomorrow at 11:00 AM about VSU bonds.
Here’s today’s agenda:
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority
Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 5:30 pm
Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive
Monthly Meeting Agenda
Why a day late and with no agenda?
Update 2016-10-19: Because, according to the Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority last night,
the meeting this morning is not them: it’s the South Regional Joint Development Authority (SRJDA).
The newspaper apparently got it wrong.
Community Calendar, VDT page 12a, 12 October 2016,
Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority meeting at 11 a.m.
October 19, Development Authority office, 103 Roosevelt Dr., Valdosta to
discuss refinance of VSU Bonds, election of officers and all other business
which may come before the Board at such meeting.
There’s nothing about that on the Development Authority’s Meeting Schedule web page (which lists a meeting “October 18, 2016” with no agenda Update 2016-10-18: that other agenda is posted now.).
And nothing about it on their facebook page.
Could this meeting be about one or both of Continue reading
Update 2016-10-19: And we asked Nydia to speak directly through YouTube.
Here’s Nydia Tisdale with her picture on the front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Gretchen and I dropped in on Nydia Sunday afternoon in Roswell, GA.
Needless to say, we support Nydia.
She usually doesn’t even provide commentary with her video reports,
yet when videoing public meetings she’s repeatedly faced obstruction
from people who don’t seem to know the First Amendment, nor even the Four Amendment, much less Georgia’s Open Meetings Law.
Chris Joyner, AJC, 6 October 2016,
Ga. citizen journalist faces possible jail time, Continue reading
Small, big, huge, and PDF versions of each and every
one of the 144 alignment maps FSC filed with FERC in May 2016 are
on the LAKE website.
![[21040-510-ALS-00001 STA: 00+00 TO 50+00, POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA]](http://www.l-a-k-e.org/govt/ferc/2016-05-20--fsc-implementation-plan/small/20160520-5173-31474756-0002.jpg)
21040-510-ALS-00001 STA: 00+00 TO 50+00, POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA
PDF
Follow
the link for details of what, and how you can help.
For maps of the rest of the Southeast Market Pipelines Project (SMPP, including Sabal Trail),
see SMPP.
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Investigative reporting costs money, for open records requests, copying, web hosting, gasoline, and cameras, and with sufficient funds we can pay students to do further research. You can donate to LAKE today!
Here are LAKE videos of
the candidates running in the November general election at
“Meet the Candidates”
by the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce September 27th 2016.
It seemed less attended than usual, but that may have been due to the larger venue
of Mathis Auditorium dwarfing the audience.
Each got a few minutes to say something, and nobody took questions.
There were tables with information before they spoke.
James Neil Harris said he was curious about the Sabal Trail pipeline,
Teresa K. Moffit said she was against it,
Clay Griner voted to sell Sabal Trail an easement through the closed Lowndes County landfill,
and
Dexter Sharper voted in the Georgia House against river-drilling easements for Sabal Trail.
Below are links to the LAKE video of each candidate speaking, followed by a video playlist.
See also Continue reading