Videos of ZBOA decisions on
one
single-family residence and a
car dealership sign in the county,
and
an electric company sign parking variance in the city.
They meet again this afternoon.
Here’s the agenda, with decisions, followed by the videos. Continue reading
Gretchen filed an open records request for all the natively-electronic
materials from the board packet,
especially including
the list of the Commission’s own goals,
but
all we got was the one rezoning item,
REZ-2015-02 Devine
for the
23 February 2015 Work Session
of the Lowndes County Commission.
At least they sent that much by email,
but even so it’s missing important information that I wonder if the Commissioners noted wasn’t there before they voted.
New material in here, different from Continue reading
A flood plain rezoning next to the Withlacoochee river came back from 2011,
at the
28 July 2014 Planning Commission meeting,
which voted unanimously for, as did the Valdosta City Council later.
7. VA-2014-05 Riverview Development LLC
Video. This is parcel 0074 088 on North Valdosta Road behind Music Funeral Home, next to Langdale Park, on the other side of the Withlacoochee River from Foxborough.
City Planner Matt Martin said only a tiny part of the property was in the floodplain of the Withlacoochee River. Continue reading
If you're unemployed, you may not be able to afford a car: then how do you get to work even if you can find a job? As our own Industrial Authority's Community Assessment of last October said, we need public transportation to promote business by getting employees to jobs. T-SPLOST doesn't do that: it would widen more roads and build no public transportation.
Peter S. Goodman wrote for Huffington Post today, Unemployment Problem Includes Public Transportation That Separates Poor From Jobs
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — In the two months since he lost his job
driving a delivery truck for a door company, Lebron Stinson has absorbed a bitter geography lesson about this riverfront city: The jobs are in one place, he is in another, and the bus does not bridge the divide.
Stinson lives downtown, where many of the factories that once employed willing hands have been converted into chic eateries. The majority of jobs are out in the suburbs, in the strip malls, office parks and chain restaurants that stretch eastward. Most of this sprawl lies beyond reach of the public bus system, and Stinson cannot afford a car.
The report Janus Economic did for VLCIA 11 October 2011, Community & Economic Assessment: Lowndes County says:
There is a plan for a public transportation system in Valdosta-Lowndes County but it currently lacks funding for implementation. Under current budget constraints it will be difficult to implement such a project, but businesses in the industrial parks and outlying areas may want to implement a limited transportation system if they discover that employee attendance is an issue.
That would be the plan for $7.5 million for a four line bus system that got cut first pass from the T-SPLOST project list, while widening a few miles of Old US 41 North got raised from $8 million to $12 million and is still in the final list.
T-SPLOST would promote more sprawl of exactly the kind we don't need. Let's not do that.
-jsq