Tag Archives: Valdosta

Videos: 3 small rezonings: Dasher, Lowndes, Valdosta @ GLPC 2015-08-31



Vice-Chair Jody Hall presided,
sounding like he’d been practicing and it paid off at the 31 August 2015 Planning Commission meeting.

Nobody spoke for or against the

agricultural rezoning
in Lowndes County and the Planning Commission recommended it,
but it may be more controversial than it looks now that

the Lowndes County Commission agenda item and packet for Tuesday
indicates it’s apparently related to that

$16,915 the county agreed to pay to upgrade a water line near the
Lake Alapaha subdivision.

The owner spoke for the

automobile repair shop
in Dasher with nobody against,
and it was unanimously recommended.

Nobody spoke against

the office rezoning
in Valdosta. There was some Commissioner discussion of nearby neighborhoods.
It was recommended 6-2 for R-15.

Here’s

GLPC agenda,
with links the the LAKE videos below, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

Work and Regular Sessions both Tuesday @ LCC Work 2015-09-08

Both LCC meetings Tuesday, plus Development Authority 10AM, Chamber members to be Heard 3:30PM, and Board of Elections 4:30PM, before the Commission votes 5:30 PM.

Update 2015-09-08:
LAKE did what the county staff didn’t:
turned a mound of paper into electronic format and

posted it.
The added material is for the

Shiloh Road Roundabout (county has to maintain lighting and landscaping)
and
the bids for the
Bevel Creek
and

Coleman Road lift stations.
Except there’s no bid from Xylem for replacing the Coleman Road pump.
Did they not bid, or did the Clerk’s office not supply that bid?
(Also updated links to other meetings in first line of this post.)


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The Lowndes County Commission
will consider a
church rezoning on Mullins Road
that’s so close to a county water line near the Lake Alapaha development
on the Alapaha River that the County staff felt they had to warn the applicant.
Bid awards for the utilities extension to Lowndes Middle School is on the agenda as
South Perimeter Road Utility Extension,
and it appears staff may have outsourced this million-dollar decision to Lovell Engineering.
Utilities also wants

$38,930.50 for Bevel Creek
and

$35,144.20 for Coleman Road
for new Wilo lift station pumps.
Their one-paragraph writeups sound like a good deal with substantial savings,
but they reference multiple quotes which were not included.
Where are those quotes? (They were on paper; see above.)

The county staff also wants
wants
a roundabout for Shiloh Road!
Next they’ll be wanting
speed humps on county roads
they’ve made unsafe by paving (don’t hold your breath).

Here’s

what LAKE got online for the commission packet
and the Lowndes County Commission

agenda. See also the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Let’s stop Sabal Trail before it makes any more mistakes

Thanks to Julie Bowland for the picture of my VDT op-ed today. -jsq


jsq op-ed in VDT
The same day the Sabal Trail was quoted in the VDT August 5th as
saying it had done enough subsurface analysis on our fragile karst
limestone topography, a sinkhole opened up next to Shiloh Road.
Sabal Trail already had to move its Albany compressor station
because arrowheads had been found there. The pipeline itself is a
much bigger mistake: let’s stop it before it damages our property
values, forests, rivers, or our people.

Spectra Energy’s paid staff are continue to assert that Sabal
Trail’s proposed gouge through our fields, farms, and under our
rivers will proceed according their plan to profit executives and
investors in Houston, Texas.

Actually, Continue reading →

Citi agrees fixing climate change is profitable

Save more by acting to fix climate change, on similar overall investment for trying to deal with unfixed effects, says

Citi Global Perspectives & Solutions (GPS).
Save more on similar expense:
that’s profiting by fixing climate change.
Fastest way to do that with least expense: deny all new pipelines, all LNG export, and end fracking.


Dana Nuccitelli, Guardian, 31 August 2015,
Citi report: slowing global warming would save tens of trillions of dollars:
A report from America’s 3rd-largest bank asks why we’re not transitioning to a low-carbon economy, Continue reading →

Building location, front yard, and flag size @ ZBOA 2015-09-01



2:30 PM today,

building location next to Southview Cemetery,
a

front yard setback (my that’s an impressive porch!),
and

maximum size of a flag.

Here’s

the agenda from the City of Valdosta’s website,
plus links into the
board packet on the LAKE website,
courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.
I bet the city could put the board packet on their website just as easily.


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

September 1, 2015

2:30 p.m.

Continue reading →

Videos: Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del @ ZBOA 2015-08-04

They meet again today 2:30 PM.



Last month,
ZBOA voted 5 to 1 to let

Moody Family Housing
have a reduction of 25% (half of the 50% they wanted)
so as to include a requirement of native trees.
Gretchen Quarterman made the motion, Paul Alvarado seconded, and Satrina Plyler (filling the unexpired term of Scott Orenstein) voted against.

See for more background.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Videos: Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del

Regular Session, Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 August 2015.

-jsq

3 small rezonings: Dasher, Lowndes, Valdosta @ GLPC 2015-08-31


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An

automobile repair shop
in Dasher,
a

agricultural rezoning
in Lowndes County,
and

an office rezoning
in Valdosta, in
the

GLPC agenda
that appeared on the county’s website after Gretchen called to inquire.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park


REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA


Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue


Monday, August 31, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Continue reading →

Solar power for military bases in Florida: Gulf Power, a Southern Company

Southern Company solar farms at military bases are not just

for Georgia anymore;
SO subsidiary Gulf Power is building more and bigger ones in Florida.



Gulf Power,
Solar Energy Farms,

Gulf Power is partnering with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force to build solar energy farms at three different facilities across Northwest Florida.
The projects could be in service as early as December 2016.

“This is an important collaboration between Gulf Power, the Navy and the Air Force,” said Stan Connally, Gulf Power president and CEO. “As military installations seek solutions to promote renewable energy generation, we have worked alongside our military customers to help provide cost-effective solutions — and all our customers will reap the benefit.”

HelioSage and Gulf Power, PRNewsWire, 22 January 2015,

HelioSage & Gulf Power Announce 120 Megawatts of Solar in Florida:
Landmark projects will span three sites through partnership with Navy and Air Force, Continue reading →

Videos: Nuisance ordinance, numerous emergencies, small rezoning, and alcohol @ LCC 2015-08-11


They meet again Monday morning; here are videos from when they voted two weeks ago.
There was a
brief update on the Shiloh Road sinkhole,
adding to

the previous morning’s report;
see also
news reports.
The rest of the meeting was rather predictable Continue reading →

Agriculture, Internet access, and Transportation driving Development @ LCC 2015-08-24

New County Extension Agent

Jenna Kicklighter will introduce herself at Monday morning’s Work Session,,


they’ll consider a
a
Beer and Wine License for Dollar General,
a
new secondary
Internet Bandwidth Contract
with
Mediacom,
and the US 41 N widening has already spawned
further road paving
to promote development:

Lowndes County Engineering has received a proposal Continue reading →