After the Planning Commission meeting of 31 March 2014 and the Lake Park City Council meeting of 1 April 2014, and a special public hearing, the Lake Park City Council voted 3 to 1 to deny the Brookhaven apartment building rezoning.

Mayor Eric Schindler’s statement about how the hornet’s nest of the Brookhaven rezoning LP-2014-02-26, or any rezoning, is a process and not a snap decision is well worth watching.

The City of Lake Park does not appear to have posted an agenda, or at least where I expected to find it there are no details. Below are links to the videos in the order items appeared at the Lake Park City Council Regular Session of May 6th 2014, with a few notes.

• Welcome, Pledge, Invocation

  Video.

• Running for Georgia State Senate –John Page

  Video.

• The hornet’s nest of Brookhaven rezoning LP-2014-02-26 –Mayor Eric Schindler

  Video. Any rezoning is a process, not a snap decision, he said.

• LP-2014-02-26 Brookhaven apartment rezoning

  Video. Council Bert Rutland briefly discussed water and flooding problems, and then made a motion to deny. Council Ronald Carter seconded. They and Sandy Sherrill voted yea; Paul Mulkey voted nay. Mayor Eric Schindler declared the motion passed, 3 to 1. “That’s it!” The audience applauded.

• Minutes and financials for 2014-04-01 and 2014-04-28

  Video. You can see reporter Winnie Wright of WCTV walk past the LAKE camera. Here’s her report of earlier that same day. The same link includes her report on the April 28th Public Hearing. The audience was sufficiently noisy leaving that Council declared a five minute break.

• Five minute break, love bugs, and mosquitoes

  Video. Mayor and Council chatted with the audience about love bugs and mosquitoes during the five minute break. The Mayor mentioned they had an item on the agenda about mosquito spraying.

• Approval of minutes for 2014-04-01 and 2014-04-28

  Video.

• Approval of Financials

  Video.

• Proclamation for the late J.C. “Sprig” Carter

  Video. Five-time Lake Park City Council member. Here is his Obituary.

• Mr. Wyatt’s fish pond idea

  Video.

• Parking at Tom’s Pond

  Video. Tom’s Pond fertilization was on the agenda for the April 1st Council meeting, but I don’t see any discussion of it in the videos of that April meeting

• Two quotes

  Video.

• A valve leak

  Video.

• Mosquito spraying proposal

  Video.

• Over $6,000 grant to police department for defibrillators

  Video.

• Cemetery Committee and Zoning Appointments

  Video.

• Cemetery Committee

  Video.

• Department reports

  Video. Lake Park doesn’t have a city manager, so the departments report directly to the City Council.

• Apology for forgetting to listen to citizens, and Police Dept. report

  Video. Between department reports the Mayor actually apologized for forgetting to listen to citizens first. Try to imagine the Lowndes County Commission doing that!

• Utility department report

  Video.

• Running for Lowndes County Commission District 5 –Norman Bennett

  Video.

• Running for Lowndes County Commission District 5 –Gretchen Quarterman

  Video.

• Citizens Concerns

  Video.

• Sidewalks in Citizens Concerns

  Video.

• Into Executive Session to discuss personnel issues

  Video.

Here’s a video playlist:

No to Brookhaven rezoning
Regular Session, Lake Park City Council (Lake Park),
Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),
Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, 6 May 2014.

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