“Why do we have to kneel before their wishes? How is it that a single foreign corporation can have greater power and say than the hundreds of property owners and their supporters?” asked Jim Parker
in
the 11 November 2014 Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Valdosta
Videos: Pipeline, agriculture, lighting, appointments, and parks @ LCC 2014-11-11
Update 2014-11-17: board packet.
Three citizens spoke against the unnecessary and hazardous Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline. Several Commissioners even spoke up in Other Business, turning it into de facto Commisioner Comments. But none of them called for a resolution or ordinance against the pipeline.
The subdivision rezoning still got no objections, while the rezoning for agricultural use got massive objections and a compromise solution.
The emergency security monitor replacement is, you guessed it, Continue reading
Videos: 9 consideration, 6 tax lighting, 4 appointments, 2 rezonings, 1 proclamation @ LCC 2014-10-27 LCC 2014-11-10
They vote tonight on what they discussed yesterday morning in these videos. A
subdivision rezoning
gets no objections
while a
rezoning for agricultural use
gets massive objections.
Also few if any of those objectors have said anything about
the Sabal Trail pipeline.
Do priorities around here seem odd?
The emergency security monitor replacement is, you guessed it, a no-bid contract with the same company that originally installed them. Which fits with the no-bid Alapaha Water Plant Expansion, back this time for property acquisition after twice failing to get a setback variance at ZBOA.
The state changed the qualifications Continue reading
Update on Water/Sewer Projects –Tim Carroll
Received 8 Nov 2014 from Valdosta City Council Tim Carroll. -jsq
City Ahead of Schedule on Sanitary Sewer Collection System Improvement Projects
The City of Valdosta is making significant headway on two capital improvement projects that, once complete, will eliminate some sources of stormwater I&I; but more importantly, they will resolve the overwhelming majority of the sanitary sewer overflows in flood-prone areas of the city during heavy rain events—making these projects the city’s highest priority.
The $36 million Force Main Project, which is currently six months Continue reading
Valdosta’s Penn Station to be torn down –Alfred Willis @ VCC 2014-10-23
Received as a response to
Outside corporation trumps Valdosta citizens about historical Nichols house? –Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23. -jsq
The City Council’s deliberations on the 23rd had nothing to do with any construction project, but rather focused on the sale of a parcel — as Councilman Carroll’s message of the 25th accurately conveys. The Council’s vote was historic because it signified openly the supremacy of certain private property interests (specifically, those entailed in selling as a form of enjoyment) over civic cultural interests, at least within the municipality of Valdosta. In doing so it gave Valdosta’s citizens a peek behind a curtain that had remained drawn over historic preservation here since 1980. The construction of buildings, the demolition of buildings, the remodeling or moving of buildings, the maintenance and preservation of buildings, their sale and their purchase, their adaptive reuse — all of those processes are historical processes that turn on the resolution of conflicts among interests. Thus they all reveal structures of power and the machinations of powerful individuals and groups. How could they not?
The construction of the Nichols house in the early 1950s showed with a degree of clarity that probably no other Valdosta building of that time did, the identity, values, attitudes, and mode of operation of Valdosta’s leadership. Its demolition will Continue reading
9 for consideration, 6 special tax lighting, 4 appointments, 2 rezonings, 1 proclamation @ LCC 2014-11-10
Only one emergency expense this time, and it’s not for a road or water treatment!
It’s for
security video monitors for their own palace.
Presumably those are different from
the big monitor behind their podium
that very rarely we see in use.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS PROPOSED AGENDAContinue reading
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2014, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2014, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Videos: Church, brokerage, signage, substation, agriculture @ GLPC 2014-10-27
Last seen at ZBOA 2013-03-05 about a sign,
Macedonia First Baptist Church
now wants to expand in a residential neighborhood.
One applicant wants to rezone
from R-10 to Estate Agriculture.
All that and more two weeks ago at the Planning Commission.
Continue readingGreater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC)
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, October 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Pipeline, road repair, Bailey, water, and Commercial Tax Schedules @ LCC 2014-10-28
They finally made a decision onG
the Bailey rezoning:
the one the applicant liked least.
They accepted
the Creekwood Subdivision detention ponds;
and the
Glen Laurel infrastructure;
will all that be maintained any better than the one at Hamilton Circle?
Dr. Michael Noll
spoke for WACE against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.
Agenda item 6.i. is changed in the county’s online agenda from Rural to Commercial without the agenda being marked as amended.
See agenda, the LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session, and the board packet obtained via open records request by LAKE and scanned and posted on the LAKE website. Here are videos of events as they transpired, followed by a video playlist.
Continue readingPipeline neighbor in Berrien County, Georgia on WALB TV
Most of the neighbors were camera-shy, but I found one for Colter Anstaett to interview for WALB.
Dave Miller wrote for WALB TV 7:26 PM EST 6 November 2014, Nashville city clears residential gas use, businesses asked to wait, which apparently was originally entitled “Gas must be conserved in Nashville”, by Colter Anstaett 11:20 AM 6 November 2014,
BERRIEN CO., GA (WALB) — The City of Nashville says residential customers can resume normal natural gas use, after they asked all gas customers to conserve gas in the wake of a ruptured line.
Commercial business customers were still asked to conserve gas use Thursday night, according to Dawn Morrison with the City.
Resident Elizabeth Cherry said Continue reading
Pipeline break in Berrien County, Georgia
“Like a bomb going off,” said the evacuated neighbor.
Like a waterfall, was the sound by the time I got there about 11:20 AM EST,
tipped off by a friend with a 911 radio.
Several Kinder Morgan trucks were parked on Bradford Road,
with KM personnel standing near the leak.
The break in the ditch across from 986 Bradford Road
According to PHMSA’s NPMS Public Map Viewer, the pipeline operator is Continue reading