2:30 PM today,
should developers not have to follow code and put back trees
on the unnecessary and environmentally hazardous Moody Family Housing
on Val-Del Road?
You wouldn’t know who this was by a pretty name like
Azalea Commons,
or an acronym like
ACC Group III Housing,
and only the

board packet
mentions Balfour Beatty,
but it’s the same

Moody Family Housing
in an
aquifer recharge zone
that
already had a sinkhole
as admitted by
a K Street lawyer to the
Lowndes County Commission
and told to them and to the Air Force by VSU professors
that the Air Force proceeded to ignore in its
environmental assessment
and the Lowndes County Commission rezoned anyway.
Staff recommend 20% “relief” from planting trees.
How about the county get some relief from unnecessary sprawl?

They did provide

a table of the trees they want to cut down.

Here’s the agenda, which is not on the City of Valdosta website,
appearing here courtesy of

ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.
She sent the entire board packet, which is now

on the LAKE website.
I see no reason Valdosta can’t put that on their own website.

Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Matt Martin, Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Carmella Braswell, Lowndes County Zoning Administrator

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

August 4, 2015

2:30 p.m.

1. Call to Order

LOWNDES COUNTY CASES:

2. 
   VAR-2015-11 Daniel Frederick on behalf of ACC Group III Housing, LLC, DBA Azalea Commons
   (Val Del Road, Valdosta)
   
   Variance to ULDC 4.07.07 as it pertains to Tree and Vegetation Protection

OTHER BUSINESS:

3. 
   Approval of Minutes:
   June 2, 2015 (No regularly scheduled meeting in July 2015 due to lack of cases)

4. 
   Adjournment

-jsq