Valdosta’s web page sums up the situation: Continue reading
What
Gary Minchew said at the end of his last Valdosta-Lowndes County
Industrial Authority (VLCIA) meeting as a board member:
He said he’s brought over 200 jobs a year to the area. He also said he organized getting the 1 mil of dedicated tax money for VLCIA. Continue reading
Ashley Paulk, Chairman |
Joyce Evans, District 1 |
Richard Raines, District 2 |
Crawford Powell, District 3 |
This is the Commission that as its first act held a special session to propose adding two new superdistricts.
The pictures for the two new Commissioners, Richard Raines and Crawford Powell, are from Valdosta Daily Times writeups while they were running, since the Commission’s own web pages do not yet have pictures for them.
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The VDT and the Commission’s district maps don’t agree,
and the Board of Elections doesn’t know.
David Rodock writes in the VDT today that
County revives expanding Lowndes commission:
During a special meeting Monday, county commissioners unanimously approved a resolution to include two additional voting districts within Lowndes County.Last year, this expansion failed in the legislature on a technicality. If the Commission and staff don’t make the same mistake, it seems likely the legislature will approve these new districts.The two proposed voting districts would allow for greater representation at County Commission meetings by allowing for an expansion of the current available voting representatives from three to five, while keeping a non-voting commission chairman.
But the district map the VDT published (see above) is not the same Continue reading
During yesterday’s 3PM work session, Commissioner Lee asked the County Planner Continue reading
“Proposed plant said to be ‘medical atrocity'”,
about Dr. William Sammons’ Monday
talk about health problems of biomass and how solar is better.
The VDT then featured biomass in its reporting on the AAUW Candidate Forum: Continue reading
The
Lowndes County Commission meets tonight:
Lowndes County Administrative ComplexThey represent the entire county (including the cities).
Commission Chambers – 2nd Floor
327 N. Ashley Street
Valdosta, GA 31601
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Their mission statement:
To provide an efficient, effective and responsive local government to all citizens of Lowndes County while maintaining the financial strength to meet any contingencyAnyone can stand up in the Citizens Wishing to Be Heard section of the agenda and say what’s on their mind. Say who you are, where you live, and be brief and polite.
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Regarding
condominiums and zoning
in the Lowndes County ULDC,
Georgia condominium law
basically says that zoning
can’t deny condos if some other form of ownership is permitted.
If there’s a five acre minimum, only one condo unit could fit
in that five acres, but with community membership
with the other condos on the associated property..
For example, on an 18 acre piece of property,
the maximum number of units would be 3 or 4.
Of course, a condominium doesn’t have to be a dwelling unit. As Gary Stock points out The key feature is joint ownership:
“A condominium is not a building. It is a form of ownership.”it could be a horse farm, a hunting camp, a fishing club, or other. There usually needs to be a general common area, then some limited common areas with building envelopes for condo unit owners to use to build buildings (or maybe buildings are already there). The catch is that because a condominium is all one piece of property jointly owned, drawing limited common areas and building envelopes doesn’t require zoning approval.
Appended is one of the more relevant sections of the Georgia code.
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ยง 44-3-114. Effect of article upon land use, zoning, building, and subdivision laws; effect of Code Section 44-3-92; applicability of land use and zoning ordinances or laws to expandable condominiumContinue reading
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From: “Jason Davenport” <jdavenport@lowndescounty.com>Continue reading
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:30:40 -0400
To: “Lowndes County Land Development List” <jdavenport@lowndescounty.com>
Subject: Lowndes County – ULDC Update – TXT-2010-02 – Chapter 2 – Zoning Districts and Land UsesGood morning. Please be advised that the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) and the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners (LCBOC) intend to hold public hearings to consider text amendments to the Unified Land Development Code (ULDC). The proposed amendments represent updates to Chapter 2 of the Lowndes County Unified Land Development Code (ULDC)(Please See Attached). Chapter 2 of the ULDC dominantly defines the zoning districts and classifies which land uses are allowed in those districts. The primary motivation for this request stems from direction by Lowndes County leadership to do a review of the ULDC. The guiding principles in that review were to simplify the ULDC, make the regulations defensible, and finally to make the ULDC processes timely. In the administration of that review the 10 chapters of the ULDC were put in order of priority and importance. Chapter 2 and subsequently in the coming months Chapter 4 were picked as the top chapters due to their focus on regulations that deal with the primary uses of land within the unincorporated areas of Lowndes County.
How the principles translated into a review of Chapter 2 dominantly turned into a repeated series of 3 questions:
