Commissioner Crawford Powell may have found solid grounds to deny
the proposed rezoning for a development near Moody AFB,
he revealed at

this morning’s Work Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

County Planner Jason Davenport explicitly linked this rezoning case,

7.a. REZ-2012-17 Lowndes Development, LLC, Davidson Rd MAZ II and MAZ III to R-10, County Water & Sewer, ~23.49 acres

to

the zoning text code amendment on the same meeting agenda.

7.d. TXT-2012-02 MAZ II Residential Density

He also mentioned the TRC (the Technical Review Committee
composed mainly of Lowndes County and Valdosta staff) had a split vote
on this item, although
he didn’t say how it was split.
And he said the Commissioners had the Planning Commission recommendation
before them,
although he didn’t mention the Planning Commission recommended against.

Commissioner Crawford Powell brought up a good point:

The fire department and the TRC say in the notes
that it fails to comply with fire rescue ingress-egress requirements.

Fire Chief Guyton appeared to confirm that was the case,
although since he wasn’t at a microphone, it’s hard to hear.
Commissioner Powell continued:

That’s been a requirement from the ULDC?
In the fire code.
Mr. Davenport, in the last four, five, or six rezoning cases
have we allowed a single ingress-egress on a subdivision like this?

The County Planner’s response:

Not a single one.
I know the engineer has worked with some to allow for a boulevard concept.
But the most recent cases where the
fire code has been applied,
the answer is no.

That’s pretty clear.
Except for the part about there seem to have been cases where the
fire code was not applied.
Why did that happen?

Here’s

the video:

Rezoning near Moody: fire code would prohibit a single entrance @ LCC 2012-12-10

Work Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE), Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 10 December 2012.

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