“Is a daycare center technically a club for babies?” GLPC Chair Steve Miller.

Lowndes County Planning JD Dillard said he would have to ask the zoning administrator for her interpretation, of 7. VA-2026-03 Request, Jonathan Irvin amended PD, mixed-use Child Daycare – School.

The Planning Commissioners found a way not to recommend denial even of the one item for which Valdosta City staff recommended denial, 6. CU-2026-02 Request by Hedgecock Investments LLC, Conditional Use Permit (CUP). They added to one of the conditions. Calvin Graham was the lone vote against. Afterwards he told me he just didn’t think it belonged there.

Collage @ GLPC 27 April 2026

Everything else sailed through, except the first Lowndes County rezoning got a split vote for recommending approval.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the agenda and the board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request.

The Lake Park packet materials came in and LAKE posted them after the meeting.

• Before
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/0edTKO9CuoM

  1 Lake Park, 2 Lowndes County, 4 Valdosta @ GLPC 2026-04-27

  Videos by John S. Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE).
  http://www.l-a-k-e.org/blog/2026/05/videos-1-lake-park-2-lowndes-county-4-valdosta-glpc-2026-04-27.html

• 1. Call to Order, Pledge and Invocation
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/c_z7SRtd32M

  
  

• About GLPC
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/bui39PGSuMQ

  
  

• 2. Approval of the Meeting Minutes: March 30, 2026
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/Sq4ilYXJvtQ

  
  

• 3. LP-2026-01 Request by the City of Lake Park: Rezone upon Annexation 1.12 acres
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/j8ThkImZg8E

  
  

• 4. REZ-2026-11 Webb Fish Farm – Blackwater Dev., 4130 Old Bemiss Rd, ~4.8ac
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/cVDLjWyoeb8

  
  

• 5. REZ-2026-12 McBurrough, 4909 Bemiss Road, ~2.4 ac
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/QXulQxqmTB0

  
  

• 6. CU-2026-02 Request by Hedgecock Investments LLC, Conditional Use Permit (CUP)
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/PQ1mH2S7Klw

  
  

• 7. VA-2026-03 Request, Jonathan Irvin amended PD, mixed-use Child Daycare – School
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/A-AYLTe2XuY

  
  

• 8. VA-2026-05 Request by Integrity Development Partners LLC to rezone 6.258 acres
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/SDucCbwGGeY

  
  

• 9. VA-2026-05 Request by Integrity Development Partners LLC to annex 6.258 acres
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/ZP0GFNKBHU4

  
  

• Adjournment
  

  Video:
  https://youtu.be/xDhSRsMzwGc

  
  

Here is the LAKE video playlist:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiHDXfdO3OuzcC5xJw4LhTX1&si=M4wLFIdGJ2gpqlxs

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