After discussion Monday morning, on Tuesday evening the Lowndes County Commission will approve spending $2 million tax dollars, mostly in $1.6 million on Lake Park Bellville Road, including relocating water and sewer lines. There’s another $90,000 on Hightower Road and Cooper Road NE, Right of Way Purchases. Cost What $1,655,975.00Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Contract […]
$3,200,415.50 was on the agenda for this week, presumably approved by now by the Lowndes County Commission, in which they also appointed Paige Dukes to succeed Joe Pritchard as Lowndes County Manager. Table of Costs (by LAKE) Cost What $2,500,000.00 GEFA Loan Application $289,498.00 Acceptance of FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant $198,775.00 Fiber Optic […]
Maybe it was “custom fit” that caused Commissioner Clay Griner to ask for postponement of approval of purchase of firefighting equipment until after the county’s retreat. All five Commissioners voted for tabling. More detail below in the notes on that item. Bob Dewar has discovered the county wants an 80-foot right of way to pave […]
Update 2024-03-16: Videos: Gresham Event Venue passed 3:2, surprise Hospital Authority bond agreement @ LCC Regular 2024-03-12. The Lowndes County Commissioners talked a bit about REZ-2024-01 Gresham Event Venue in their Monday morning Work Session, as you can see in these LAKE videos. Some of the other rezonings got some discussion. Nobody asked any questions […]
Update 2024-03-14: Videos: Gresham Event Venue and four other rezonings @ LCC Work 2024-03-11. Here is the board packet for voting at 5:30 PM today by the Lowndes County Commission. All were heard at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session yesterday morning. Collage @ LCC Packet 2024-03-11 As I predicted, the rezoning materials are similar […]
Update 2024-03-12: Packet: Petition against Gresham Event Venue and letter supporting Southern Gardens @ LCC 2024-03-11. The two rezonings from last month are back, including the controversial Gresham Event Center. Plus three new rezonings from the Planning Commission. And five For Consideration items, three for road paving or wetlands credits for paving, plus a quit […]
The Valdosta rezonings will be heard by the Valdosta Mayor and Council at their Work Session this evening at 5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, and decided at their Regular Session Thursday evening. At least this time the subdivisions are mostly next to other subdivisions. The Planning Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of VA-2024-02 on Cherry […]
Update 2024-03-05: Videos: Valdosta subdivisions, Lowndes County subdivisions and manufacturing @ GLPC 2024-02-26. Subdivisions everywhere. At least this time mostly next to other subdivisions. Valdosta and Lowndes County cases @ GLPC 2024-02-26 The GLPC board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is on the LAKE website. Here is the agenda: Greater […]
Update 2023-01-28: Videos: Dollar General Defeated, VLDA appointment, subdivision infrastructure, VOCA, server blades @ LCC Regular 2023-01-24. The second-longest item at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session this morning was the proposed rezoning for a Dollar General at GA 122 and Skipper Bridge Road, slightly uphill from the Withlacoochee River. They vote tonight at 5:30 […]
The Lowndes County Commission continues to pretend that accepting streets for a subdivision won’t cost taxpayers anything in future maintenance, nor previously in running water and sewer there. Back in October 2019, when the county accepted infrastructure for Phase V, County Engineer Mike Fletcher said that was “the last phase of Grove Pointe”. Yet here […]