Workshop 1, Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update 2025-10-20

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Why I went to the Monday GLPC Work Session: after it was the first Workshop for the Greater Lowndes Comprehensive Plan, including the cities of Valdosta, Hahira, Remerton, Dasher, and Lake Park. Updates to the Comprehensive Plan are required by the state of Georgia every five years.

James Horton of the Southern Georgia Regional Planning Commission (SGRC) conducted the Workshop.

[Workshop 1, Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update, James Horton, SGRC, Monday, October 20, 2025]
Workshop 1, Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update, James Horton, SGRC, Monday, October 20, 2025

For the current Plan, see:
https://lowndescounty.com/DocumentCenter/View/1512/2021-Greater-Lowndes-Comprehensive-Plan-PDF?bidId=

James Horton gave a very comprehensive review of what’s in the Comprehensive Plan and what it is for. Then most of the session consisted of people filling out a SWOT analysis, mostly online. That’s Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. You can SWOT, too: follow the QR code.

Afterwards, County Manager Paige Dukes mentioned she had just been to a session with One Valdosta-Lowndes (OVL) and we all needed to make all these plans work together. I was slow to get the camera restarted, so I missed the first part of what she said, but you can get the gist from what’s on the video.

Each of the cities has its own planning beyond what’s in the Comprehensive Plan, Parks and Rec and the Tourism Authority each have their plans, and of course OVL was intended for projects that affect all of the above.

Reminds me of the old joke about when there were a dozen standards, so somebody started another standard to merge the standards. Then where were a dozen plus one standards.

James Horton says:

The next meeting is Workshop 2 on Monday November 17, 2025 at 325 West Savannah Avenue at 6:00 PM following the work session of the Greater Lowndes County Planning Commission.

And the third Workshop will also be after a GLPC Work Session, on January 20, 2026.

[Attendees @ Workshop 1, 2025-10-20 --jsq for LAKE]
Attendees @ Workshop 1, 2025-10-20 –jsq for LAKE

[Southern Georgia Regional Commission, Est. 1963, 2025-10-20 --jsq for LAKE]
Southern Georgia Regional Commission, Est. 1963, 2025-10-20 –jsq for LAKE

Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist. Plus some documents sent by James Horton.

Here is the LAKE video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiGewBQ2c5aIFwMPC15yo9Um&si=X8BOpo5RmY1u37xt

VG

[Current Vision and Goals from 2021 0001]
Current Vision and Goals from 2021 0001
PDF

[Current Vision and Goals from 2021 0002]
Current Vision and Goals from 2021 0002

GTABI

[Georgia Technology Authority Broadband Information Link]
Georgia Technology Authority Broadband Information Link
PDF

QLGF

[QLG Factsheet_programs_linked_to_qlg_status USE]
QLG Factsheet_programs_linked_to_qlg_status USE
PDF

LDemo

[Lowndes Demographic Chart1]
Lowndes Demographic Chart1
PDF

LSWOT

[Lowndes SWOT Survey]
Lowndes SWOT Survey
PDF

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