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Lowndes County – ULDC Update – TXT-2010-02 – Chapter 2 – Zoning Districts and Land Uses

We received the appended message this morning from the County Planner. It includes a request to redistribute, and it had attached this PDF.

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From: “Jason Davenport” <jdavenport@lowndescounty.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:30:40 -0400
To: “Lowndes County Land Development List” <jdavenport@lowndescounty.com>
Subject: Lowndes County – ULDC Update – TXT-2010-02 – Chapter 2 – Zoning Districts and Land Uses

Good morning. Please be advised that the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) and the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners (LCBOC) intend to hold public hearings to consider text amendments to the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC). The proposed amendments represent updates to Chapter 2 of the Lowndes County Unified Land Development Code (ULDC)(Please See Attached). Chapter 2 of the ULDC dominantly defines the zoning districts and classifies which land uses are allowed in those districts. The primary motivation for this request stems from direction by Lowndes County leadership to do a review of the ULDC. The guiding principles in that review were to simplify the ULDC, make the regulations defensible, and finally to make the ULDC processes timely. In the administration of that review the 10 chapters of the ULDC were put in order of priority and importance. Chapter 2 and subsequently in the coming months Chapter 4 were picked as the top chapters due to their focus on regulations that deal with the primary uses of land within the unincorporated areas of Lowndes County.

How the principles translated into a review of Chapter 2 dominantly turned into a repeated series of 3 questions:

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Unanswered Concerns about the Biomass Plant

I’m quoting myself here, responding to Brad Lofton’s letter of 19 Sepember 2010.

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From: “John S. Quarterman”
To: <blofton@industrialauthority.com>, Leigh Touchton
Cc: [VDT and several elected officials; list available upon request]
Subject: Re: Brad Lofton, Executive Director Industrial Authority, doesn’t want his correpondence in the Valdosta Daily Times
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:08:17 -0400

Brad Lofton,

Leigh Touchton has forwarded me copies of the correspondence between you on behalf of the Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority (VLCIA) with her and the VDT.

I must say I don’t agree with your assertion that:

“The vast majority of her concerns for our project would have been answered two years ago if she had come to any of our forums…”
Here are some examples of unanswered concerns.

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