Category Archives: Planning

Packet: LP-2025-01, Lake Park Church of Christ @ GLPC 2025-08-25

Here are the board packet materials for the August 25, 2025, meeting of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) for
agenda item 5., LP-2025-01 Lake Park Church of Christ/Steve Magee, 610, 614, 618 Sheavette Rd., 0221A 063B, ~8007 sq ft
Current Zoning: R-15 (Single Family Residential)
Proposed Zoning: R-10 (Single Family Residential)

This arrived late, and we took even longer to post it, but here it is.

Collage of LP-2025-01, Lake Park Church of Christ @ GLPC 2025-08-25

The Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval; see the LAKE video. Continue reading →

Videos: Two Lowndes County Cases, Commercial on Stewart Circle, Tower on Rocky Ford Road

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The Stewart Circle commercial rezoning sailed through. The communications tower on Rocky Ford Road had three people speaking for it (mostly about need for cell coverage), and several against, for a variety of reasons, as well as a petition against delivered at the meeting. GLPC recommended approval of both.

The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) recommends. The final decision will be by the Lowndes County Commission on Tuesday, October 14, 2025, at 5:30 PM.

In Other Business, it was revealed that there will be a presentation about the update to the Comprehensive Plan at the next GLPC WORK session. (Not the Regular Session; the Work Session the week before.)

Collage @ GLPC 29 September 2025

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

Packet: Two Lowndes County Cases, Commercial on Stewart Circle, Tower on Rocky Ford Road @ GLPC 2025-09-29

Update 2025-10-05: Videos: Two Lowndes County Cases, Commercial on Stewart Circle, Tower on Rocky Ford Road @ GLPC 2025-09-29.

It might be a brief meeting Monday, at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC).

There are only two cases, both for Lowndes County: one for a commercial operation on Stewart Circle, and the other for a communications tower on Rocky Ford Road.

You may need a time machine to see the Lowndes County Commission decide, since the meeting date listed for that is in 2024.

Collage, GLPC Packet, 2025-09-29

Here is the agenda.

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is on the LAKE website.

Images of each page are below.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~
~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~

Monday, September 29, 2025 5:30 P.M. Regular Session
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
Continue reading →

Videos: Four small items, 2 Valdosta, 2 Lowndes County @ GLPC 2025-07-28

Update 2025-08-08: Packet: 2 small rezonings, Comprehensive Plan, USGS Gauges, GDOT for Shiloh Road, Civic Center Hurricane Repair @ LCC 2025-08-11.

The Greater Lowndes Planning Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of all the items before them, some with staff-recommended conditions.

Including the Valdosta Land Development Regulations (LDR), which Valdosta still has GLPC review, even though Lowndes County no longer has GLPC review for its Unified Land Development Code (ULDC).

But see Gretchen’s comments on 6. REZ-2025-13 ENCC.

Collage @ LCC 28 July 2025

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

Packet: Four small items, 2 Valdosta, 2 Lowndes County @ GLPC 2025-07-28

Update 2025-08-04: Videos: Four small items, 2 Valdosta, 2 Lowndes County @ GLPC 2025-07-28.

Crossroads Baptist Church wants to expand at 3001 Country Club Drive and the City of Valdosta is entertaining some LDR text amendments.

The two Lowndes County rezonings are both to bring their properties into conformity or compliance.

These are on the agenda for the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) this evening.

Collage @ GLPC Packet 2025-07-28

Here is the agenda.

The board packet materials, received in response to a LAKE open records request, are on the LAKE website, with images below.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~
~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~
Monday, July 21, 2025 5:30 P.M. Work Session
Monday, July 28, 2025 5:30 P.M. Regular Session
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
Continue reading →

Videos: Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-27

Nobody showed up to oppose any rezoning, and 43 minutes is lightning fast for a Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting.

The Planning Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of each item. The Lowndes County Commission and the Hahira and Valdosta City Councils make the actual decisions.

Collage @ GLPC 27 May 2025

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

Rescheduled: Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-27

Update 2025-06-07: Videos: Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-27.

Reschedule: because there was no quorum at the originally-scheduled date, the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) will meet this evening at 5:30 PM, Tuesday, May 27, 2025.

I suppose it’s a coincidence that two different requests for “a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) for a reinstated machine and welding shop in a Highway Commercial (C-H) zoning district” about two Valdosta blocks apart are on the agenda for Monday’s Planning Commission meeting.

Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira case, @ GLPC *Rescheduled* 2025-05-27, Two Valdosta cases, both machine and welding shops

There’s one Hahira case for “Special Exception for a financial institution in R-P zoning”.

And two Lowndes County cases, one for 10 acres from E-A to R-A, and the other for 1.9 acres from C-G to C-H.

Here is the agenda.

The board packet materials for the Valdosta and Hahira cases are on the LAKE website, because Valdosta and Hahira City Planner Matt Martin sent them.

See other post for the packet materials for the Lowndes County cases.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~
~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~
Monday, May 12, 2025 5:30 P.M. Work Session
Monday, May 19, 2025 5:30 P.M. Regular Session
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
Continue reading →

Packet: 2 rezonings, 2 airport funding agreements, 3 major sewer system projects @ VCC 2025-04-10

Update 2025-05-21: Two Valdosta sewer projects from new municipal bonds, plus one from user fees @ VCC 2025-04-10.

Back at the April 10, 2025, Valdosta City Council meeting, they moved ahead towards fixing the rest of the sewer line near Knights Creek before it breaks on its way to the Mud Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Two agenda items are for Professional Design Services Proposals financed from the recently-approved $67 million in municipal bonds.

Collage, Valdosta City Council Packet, 2025-04-10

That’s $485,010 for 6.g. Consideration of a request to approve a Professional Design Services Proposal for Utility Rehabilitation and Improvements for the Lakeland Highway Lift Station and the Sanitary Sewer Main Outfall.

And $167,000 for 6.h. Consideration of a request to approve a Professional Design Services Proposal for Evaluation of the Knights Creek Sanitary Sewer Trunk Line.

Both contracts go, no surprise, to LEA Surveying and Engineering Services.

These are just design contracts. The later contracts for actually doing the work will presumably have RFPs and multiple bids.

Also on the agenda, for $279,900 funded out of user fees, and also a sole source agreement, was 7.c) Consideration of a request to purchase a new Micro Bar Screen for the Mud Creek Water Pollution Control Plant.

So that’s $931,910, or almost a million dollars, in sewer system contracts in one Valdosta City Council meeting.

The extent of the sewer system problem will require many more millions spent, after the well more than $100 million they already spent.

Here is the agenda.
https://www.valdostacity.com/file/8240/download?token=l4yXr9FM

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is on the LAKE website, with images of each page below.

Why the packet is not on the city’s own website is mysterious.

Even more mysterious is why the minutes of that meeting are not on the city’s Agendas & Minutes web page. There have been two more City Council meetings since then, at one of which those April 10 minutes should have been approved. Continue reading →

Packet: Lowndes County materials @ GLPC 2025-05-19

Update 2025-06-07: Videos: Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-27.

Update 2025-05-20: There was no quorum, so there was no GLPC meeting yesterday.

In addition to the two Valdosta machine and welding shop Conditional Use Permit requests, this evening the Planning Commission will hear a C-G to C-H rezonings request for All Metal Buildings to “unifity the commercial zoning on the properties for their expanding business” across Madison Highway east of the Valdosta Airport.

Collage, Lowndes County rezoning materials @ GLPC Packet 2025-05-19

Plus there’s a county request north of Naylor for E-A to R-A near the Cherry Creek that flows into the Alapaha River a bit upstream from Old State Road in Lowndes County and Hochkiss Road in Lanier County.

Those Lowndes County packet materials, received in response to a LAKE open recor ds request, are on the LAKE website.

Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-19

Update 2025-05-19: Packet: Lowndes County materials @ GLPC 2025-05-19.

Collage @ LCC Packet 2025-05-19

There’s one Hahira case for “Special Exception for a financial institution in R-P zoning”.

And two Lowndes County cases, one for 10 acres from E-A to R-A, and the other for 1.9 acres from C-G to C-H.

Here is the agenda.

The board packet materials for the Valdosta and Hahira cases are on the LAKE website, because Valdosta and Hahira City Planner Matt Martin sent them.

The Lowndes County materials are not, because I miscalculated the date of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) meeting as May 26 when it is actually May 19, so the LAKE open records request was scheduled to go out this Tuesday. I have sent an open records request to the county for the May 19 meeting. Meanwhile, the county already sent the minutes from the previous GLPC meeting, and those are on the LAKE website.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~
~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~
Monday, May 12, 2025 5:30 P.M. Work Session
Monday, May 19, 2025 5:30 P.M. Regular Session
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
Continue reading →

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Category Archives: Planning

Packet: LP-2025-01, Lake Park Church of Christ @ GLPC 2025-08-25

Videos: Two Lowndes County Cases, Commercial on Stewart Circle, Tower on Rocky Ford Road

Packet: Two Lowndes County Cases, Commercial on Stewart Circle, Tower on Rocky Ford Road @ GLPC 2025-09-29

Videos: Four small items, 2 Valdosta, 2 Lowndes County @ GLPC 2025-07-28

Packet: Four small items, 2 Valdosta, 2 Lowndes County @ GLPC 2025-07-28

Videos: Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-27

Rescheduled: Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-27

Packet: 2 rezonings, 2 airport funding agreements, 3 major sewer system projects @ VCC 2025-04-10

Packet: Lowndes County materials @ GLPC 2025-05-19

Two Lowndes County cases, 1 Hahira, 2 Valdosta @ GLPC 2025-05-19