Packet: New Library Board, Wisenbaker Rd rezoning, communications tower in Langdale Park, Pre-Disaster Logistics, Juvenile Justice, Lift Station Bypass @ LCC 2026-07-14

Here are the board packet materials for the Work Session and Regular Session, both tomorrow, Tuesday, July 14, 2026, of the Lowndes County Commission.

About the communications tower in Langdale Park, the packet still does not include the Propagation maps that are required by ULDC 5.05.05.B and 5.05.05.E; see Verizon tower in Langdale Park? @ GLPC 2026-06-29.

How are the County Commissioners supposed to decide without all the evidence, this “quasi-judicial decision whether the standards for a telecommunications tower in Section 5.05.05 of the ULDC are met”?

The agenda sheet says, “At the Planning Commission, the applicant’s representative spoke in support, while one citizen spoke in opposition, claiming that inadequate information was available to the GLPC for their consideration. Staff presented the information to the GLPC, who found it sufficient to recommend approval (7-2).”

If the information presented to the Planning Commission was sufficient, why does this County Commission packet include an additional signed and sealed letter from an engineer, which says, “As part of the proposed telecommunications site listed above, we are designing the site in compliance with the Section 5.05.04 (A) of the Lowndes County, Georgia Land Development Code….”

That would appear to satisfy the letter of ULDC 5.05.05.E. Unfortunately, it may not be accurate.

I still don’t see any of these points addressed:

An inventory in VALORGIS of the applicant’s existing towers or alternative tower structures. See ULDC 5.05.05.B.2
An argument for why Langdale Park would not be a “historic district” or a “scenic view corridor.” See 5.05.05.G.5
An argument for why hiking trails cleared by numerous citizens would not be public rights of way. See 5.05.05.I.I. and the Right-of-Way definition on page 1-25.

Bailey Lively, P.E., As part of the proposed telecommunications site listed above, we are designing the site in compliance with the Section 5.05.04 (A) of the Lowndes County, Georgia Land Development Code
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Here’s a picture I took this morning of a Verizon survey red flag to the left (east) of the Langdale Park White Trail A, just south of Hyta Mederer Drive.

VZ Tower survey marker next to Langdale Park White Trail A, 2026-07-13 –jsq for LAKE

The White Trail A goes north to south along the lot line marked L10 on this Verizon Specific Purpose Survey map.

The red flag and the marker on the ground near it are presumably marking the northwest corner of “The TOWERS LLC PREMISES”.

The borders of the trail right of way are marked by the sawed ends of logs cut by many volunteers for a public hiking trail. Why would this not count as a public right of way? And why is that survey marker not too close to it?

Specific Purpose Survey
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LAKE got these packet materials today (Monday) around noon, after I remembered Sunday to send the open records request. It had been queued up for automatic sending, but on the wrong date.

The documents we received are on the LAKE website. Images of each page are below. They also include the minutes for the June 22 Work Session, the June 23 Regular Session, and the June 26 Special Called Meeting to Adopt the FY 2027 Budget.

If the county simply put the entire PDFs of the board packet materials on its own website, as many other counties smaller and larger have been doing for years, nobody would have to go through this rigamarole.

For the two Public Hearing items, the Wisenbaker Road rezoning and the communications tower in Langdale Park, see also the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting.

-jsq

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