Tag Archives: Valdosta

Videos: Abandon Beaver Lane, Aging Development Appointments, Kinderlou Lift Station Pump @ LCC 2016-05-23

Will they take longer to vote this evening at 5:30 PM than the
8 1/2 minutes for yesterday morning’s Work Session with


a full agenda?

No questions yesterday from Commissioners about that $55,979.00 in

two no-bid
items, although the County Manager did say “quotes” about the .
lift station pump.
The

County Manager’s Report
did say he’d received
an annexation request from Hahira for the W. Main St. property and he indicated no grounds for the county to protest.

The only question from a Commissioner was about which one of them
might be picked to serve with

“Ms. Andrea Schuijer”
on the

South Regional Joint Development Authority.
Answer: maybe Clay Griner.
Nobody asked why

the county’s web page on that Joint Authority
says Andrea Schruijer is already on it.
Is this a reappointment?
And which slots are vacant?
Also, what does this Joint Authority do?

For the
Southern Georgia Area Agency on Aging,
yes it’s Commissioner Joyce Evans for reappointment.

County Engineer Mike Fletcher said

the Beaver Lane closing
previously came up in 2002 and was denied,
but now some of the opponents from then are for it.
Tonight is not the public hearing: merely a determination on scheduling a public hearing. Continue reading →

No agenda for Planning Commission Work Session @ GLPC 2016-05-23

On

Lowndes County’s website
there’s no agenda for tonight’s Planning Commission Work Session,

Notice of Public Hearing Sign, thanks to Barbara Stratton
even though

the City of Valdosta’s calendar
lists that Work Session for 5:30 PM Monday May 23rd 2016
at South Health District Administrative Office (former Lowndes County Administration Building),

325 W Savannah Ave, Valdosta, GA 31601.
Presumably the

Hahira rezonings and annexation will be discussed.
And will County Manager Joe Pritchard say this morning at 8:30 AM
at the Lowndes County Work Session that he has received an annexation letter from Hahira?

Neither of these Monday meetings are public hearings:
the public can attend, but can not speak.
See

previous post for when the public hearings are.

-jsq

Abandon Beaver Lane, Aging Development Appointments, Kinderlou Lift Station Pump @ LCC 2016-05-23

This morning’s 8:30 AM
$45,600.00 for new grounds for four

radio towers:
was it in the budget, or is this another emergency no-bid item?
Ditto the $10,379.00 for the
Kinderlou Lift Station Pump?
Each item names only one company quoting.

After

abandoning Beaver Lane, will the county vote to fix it as a private road,

4689 Mt. Zion Road, parcel 0061 01
like they did with

Carter Way?
And from whom did the county receive the abandonment request?
Will the

County Manager’s Report
include
the Hahira W. Main St. annexation?

Also on
the Lowndes County Commission agenda
for discussion Monday morning and vote Tuesday evening,
appointing

“Ms. Andrea Schuijer and a Commissioner”
to the Continue reading →

Hahira rezoning and annexation, W. Park St @ GLPC 2016-05-31

Update 2016-04-23: Fixed date of Hahira City Council Work Session to May 31st per comment from Barbara Stratton.

Josh Thomason wants to combine three parcels and annex one of them into Hahira.

Parcels 0026 026, 027 & part of 029
Some people are rightly concerned about whether Hahira’s sewer system can handle it.
Apparently Hahira Mayor and Council have already discussed these three related cases,
and they come up for two Planning Commission meetings and a Hahira vote
in the next few weeks, plus the annexation goes past the Lowndes County Commission.
Oh, and Valdosta is indirectly involved.

Barbara Stratton, facebook, 17 May 2016: Continue reading →

Nature Nates and GEDA @ VLCIA 2016-05-17



On tonight’s Development Authority agenda,
I’m guessing GEDA is

Georgia Economic Development Association.
Nature Nate, you may recall, is the first occupant of Miller Business Park.
I continue to suggest the Development Authority put solar panels on much of that
unused business park land and turn the business parks into profit centers instead
of continual money sinks to service all those bonds that funded them.

Valdosta-Lowndes Development Authority

Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:30 p.m.

Development Authority Conference Room/103 Roosevelt Drive

Monthly Meeting Agenda Continue reading →

Yoho hikes Sabal Trail pipeline route

Calling on Austin Scott GA-08 and Sanford Bishop GA-02 and other members of Congerss
to also ask the Corps
for a Supplementary Environmental Impact Study (SEIS) about Sabal Trail discrepancies.
Same story appeared in the Suwannee Democrat yesterday.


Page 5A
Thomas Lynn, Valdosta Daily Times, 17 May 2016,
Yoho hikes Sabal Trail pipeline route,

LIVE OAK. Fin. — US. Rep. Ted Yoho hiked with around 30 opponents
to the Sabal Trail pipeline through Suwannee River State Park’s Big
Oak Trail in north Florida to look at sinkholes near the proposed
route.

The morning hike was a result of Continue reading →

Solar price drops setting invisible price limit for ever-dirtier fossil fuel extraction

A fairly insightful piece on the how oil price rises drive more fossil fuel production,


currently fueled by debt because wages of most workers have been falling, still misses two big points: solar prices continually plumetting now undercut all fossil fuel prices, and dirtier fossil fuel extraction and its massive colonial invasion of pipelines are meeting resistance everywhere, including at the regulatory-captured puppet agencies like FERC.

“Tyler Durden”, ZeroHedge, 13 May 2016,
Submitted by Gail Tverberg via Our Finite World blog,

The Real Oil Limits Story – What Other Researchers Missed, Continue reading →

Videos: Attorneys v Carter Way tar baby, Appointment, big subdivision, Hwy 84 lift station @ LCC 2016-05-10



Multiple attorneys (ka-ching!) were needed

to negotiate access for the county to fix private Carter Way,
which the Lowndes County Commission approved unanimously at its 10 May 2016
Regular Session.
This is the same Commission that signed an easement with Sabal Trail
because they didn’t want to spend attorney fees to defend a lawsuit.
The same Sabal Trail that wants to put its three-foot pipe only three feet deep

just downhill from where Carter Way washed out.

County Planner Jason Davenport showed an updated site plan for

6.a. REZ-2016-10 Freedom Heights, 4301 Bemiss Rd, C-H to P-D,
but as usual it’s not posted on the county’s website, and you had no way
of seeing it before the meeting unless you filed an open records request
three days before.

Commissioner Clay Griner remembered flooding, fence, and forgot the third thing
a constituent asked him for about

6.b. REZ-2016-11 Creekside West Subdivision, 7551 GA Hwy 122 W.
Developer Young Tillman said the changes were because Continue reading →

Videos: Carter Way tar baby, Appointment, big subdivision, Hwy 84 lift station @ LCC 2016-05-09



The County Manager asked for Carter Way to be on the agenda for tonight’s
5:30 PM Regular Session.
At yesterday morning’s Work Session
the County Attorney reminded us that

in a previous episode (March 25th Work Session) we learned
that the Loretta B. Moore irrevocable living trust owns half of the access
to the damaged part of the road.
Since then he’s learned that the trustee is
the Loretta Anne Ruth, who lives in Panama City, Florida.
He has contacted her, and has a copy of the trust formation document.
He says Ms. Ruth has signed an agreement with the county, and
he expected Charles Cowart of Cowart and Sons to sign an agreement that same morning.

Below are LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s Work Session, followed by a video playlist.
See also
the agenda and
the
LAKE videos of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting at which
the two rezoning cases were discussed.
The County Commission votes tonight at 5:30PM. Continue reading →

Videos: Freedom Heights, Bemiss Road, Creekside West, GA 122 W @ GLPC 2016-04-25


A small subdivision on Bemiss Road, and a big one on GA 122 west of Hahira, in these
LAKE videos of the 25 April 2016 Greater Lowndes Planning
Commission Regular Session, interspersed with
the agenda below, followed by a video playlist. The Lowndes
County Commission discussed both cases yesterday at
their Work Session, and will vote on them tonight.

Continue reading →