Tag Archives: LAKE

County and city setbacks @ ZBOA 2019-01-08

Setbacks are requested by in the county and in the city for ZBOA tomorrow afternoon.

[Conceptual Lot Layout Plan]

Conceptual Lot Layout Plan

The agenda packet is

on the LAKE website,
courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.

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) 259-3563

Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

January 8, 2019

2:30 p.m.

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Appointment to Development Authority, Abandon Reed Road, End Hay Lease, Forestry Speaks @ LCC 2019-01-07

It’s the end of an era at the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA),
excuse me, the Development Authority,
now that Roy Copeland declined to be reappointed.
To his joint-appointment position,
Valdosta appointed Aneesha Johnson, and

the Lowndes County Commission may confirm Tuesday.


Aneesha Johnson


DuPont Valdosta Plant Names Johnson New Plant Manager,
Valdosta Today, 29 June 2015.

In Monday morning’s Work Session, they will also consider

abandoning the end of Reed Road
(presumably the part that runs down to the Withlacoochee River),
and

ending the hay lease
(presumably on the county’s Land Application Site).
Chief Ranger Stephen Spradley
of Georgia Forestry will say a few words.
They vote Tuesday at 5:30 PM.

Here’s
the agenda.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: slightly larger: The Settlement North on Val Del Road @ LCC 2018-12-11

In their one December 2018 Regular Session,
they couldn’t bring themselves to reject a rezoning, but
they did require still larger lot sizes, for

the Val Del Road rezoning.


That was the most elaborate series of motions I’ve seen on anything
in the dozen years I’ve been following the Lowndes County Commission.
It even exceeds the time somebody tried to rezone next to my west field
and they denied that one by not voting.

Nothing else took more than a few minutes.
The County Manager

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Videos: The Settlement North on Val Del Road back again @ LCC 2018-12-10

Molly Stevenson, Engineering/Planning Technician,
reminded Commissioners that the main reason for the Val Del Road
rezoning
is to be able to subdivide at a greater density.
Then she recited the reasons to deny it.


Chairman Bill Slaughter reminded Commissioners they’d tabled it twice, and
“I’d very much like to get this resolved at this meeting.”
By which he meant the Regular Session this evening at 5:30 PM,
not the Work Session yesterday morning at which he said that.
At least one Commissioner

had a question.

The second longest item was

6 m. Approval of the 2019 Commission Meeting Calendar,
because of two questions by Commissioners.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
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Videos: Val Del subdivision tabled second time @ LCC 2018-11-13

The same Val Del Road subdivision

on today’s agenda for the third time
was

tabled at the applicant’s request the second time it came up,
a month ago.

The longest item was

6 h/i/j Tyler Technology Repository/Processing/E-filing,
in which Georgia is catching up to Florida.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 13 November 2018 Regular Session,
with a few comments.
See also

the agenda, the
LAKE videos of the 12 November 2018 Work Session,
and the
LAKE blog of the county’s own videos of its 9 October 2018 Regular Session.

Videos: Subdivisions, solar, and alcohol @ LCC 2018-11-12

The same Val Del Road subdivision

on today’s agenda for the third time
was tabled the second time it came up,
a month ago.
Here

it is in the LAKE videos
in the Work Session of November 12, 2018,
when the applicant hadn’t even responded to the Commissioners’ previous request to consider 1.5 acre lots.


By far the longest thing that day, at half an hour,
was

7. Reports – Special Presentation ABM Industries Inc..

Below are links to each LAKE video of the 12 November 2018 Work Session,
with a few comments.
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Back again: The Settlement North on Val Del Road @ LCC 2018-12-10

The agenda sheet says “the applicant’s conceptual site plan is attached.”
But of course we the taxpaying, traffic-affected, and water-drinking public don’t get to see it.

Why the Lowndes County Commission considering rezoning for a subdivision
that its own staff says doesn’t fit the Comprehensive Plan Character Area,
is outside the Urban Service Area, would add significant traffic, and many neighbors spoke against it, plus the Planning Commission recommended denial?
The Commission tabled in October, and again in November, when
Commissioners asked for an update, but now staff says, “There are no updates to the overall case status.”

If they can’t deny this one, what rezoning can they ever deny?


Current Zoning Map, REZ-2018-17

Photo: Still by LAKE from Lowndes County Commission video of its
9 Oct 2018 Regular Session.

Here is the agenda.
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Generators and communications for sewer system lift stations @ VCC 2018-12-06

Nothing is on

the agenda
about the recent major spill at the Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant for tonight’s Valdosta City Council meeting.


However, there are three other sewage-related Utility Department items:
bids for

ten emergency standby generators and for


water treatment chemicals, and

Consideration of a request to purchase a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system for Lift Stations and Water Treatment Plants.

Those are all good steps, so lift stations won’t fail due to lack of power,
so Valdosta Utilities can know what’s going on in real time (SCADA),
and so they can continue testing.

Maybe you’d like to come compliment Valdosta on that much
and ask them what they’re doing to prevent WWTP spills,
in

Citizens to be Heard.

Also tonight, appointments to KLVB, VLCDA, and Valdosta Tree Commission.

AGENDA

REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL

5:30 PM Thursday, December 6, 2018

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL

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KFC and Cemetery in ZBOA Packet 2018-12-04 @ ZBOA 2018-12-04

Two items at ZBOA today:

a cemetery on Gaines Lane, off of
Dasher Johnson Road,
south of
US 84,
east of
US 41.

And a

Kentucky Fried Chicken
between Patterson and Ashley Streets.

[Tax Parcels Aerial]

The agenda packet is

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Education, Religion, Commerce @ GLPC 2018-11-26

Scintilla Charter Academy

wants to expand,
as does

New Harvest United Methodist Church,
plus

a family subdividing
and another

going commercial,
all in Valdosta.


Parcel 0072 198, Map

Lowndes County Tax Assessors, Parcel 0072 198, 3911 N Hwy 41.

In Lowndes County,
West Hill Properties

wants an acre zoned commercial between Old US 41 N and Stewart Circle.
Gretchen will be at the Planning Commission tonight with the LAKE video camera.

Here’s

the agenda.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


Lowndes County


City of Valdosta


City of Dasher


City of Hahira


City of Lake Park



REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA



Monday, November 26, 2018 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing


Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

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