Category Archives: SGRC

Videos: Lowndes Comprehensive Plan Workshop @ SGRC 2016-04-04



Here are links to the LAKE videos of the 4 March 2016
Workshop on the Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update, followed by a video playlist.
The next Workshop is 6PM tonight.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Videos: Lowndes Comprehensive Plan Workshop

Workshop, 2016 Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update (SGRC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

327 West Savannah Ave., Valdosta, GA 31601, 4 April 2016.

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Videos: Community Wellness and Housing, Comprehensive Plan Workshop #3 @ SGRC 2016-03-21



Here are LAKE videos of the third Workshop of 21 March 2016 about the Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update.

The fourth Workshop is

tonight, 5-7PM,
at SGRC, 327 W. Savannah Avenue
Valdosta, Georgia.
Here’s
the current draft of March 30, 2016, which resulted from that third workshop.
Come help us update it!

Videos: Comprehensive Plan Update Workshop #2 @ SGRC 2016-03-07



Very interesting input on the second Workshop on updating the
Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan, including quite a bit about agriculture,
rivers, and roads.
Educational issues are in the Update, including the underlying issue: poverty.

See also
the invitation with a link to the Workbook draft used at that meeting.

Here are links to the LAKE videos of the two main topics, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

Lowndes Comprehensive Plan Workshop @ SGRC 2016-04-04

The current draft is dated March 30, 2016. Come Monday and help update it further!


Economic Development, II. Issues and Opportunities
The next workshop for the Joint 2016 Lowndes County and Cities of
Dasher, Hahira, Lake Park, Remerton, and Valdosta Comprehensive Plan
Update will be on:

Monday, April 4, 2016

5:00 p.m. — 7:00 p.m.

Southern Georgia Regional Commission

327 W. Savannah Avenue

Valdosta, Georgia

We will continue reviewing the Issues and Opportunities.

The current draft of the plan is available at: Continue reading →

Issues and Opportunities in Comprehensive Plan Workshop @ SGRC 2016-03-21

This Reminder came in today, refreshingly explicitly mentioning agriculture.
Note the different location, this time at the Health Dept. office after the
Planning Commission meeting.


The next workshop for the 2016 Greater Lowndes Comprehensive Plan
Update will be:

Monday, March 21, 2016

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 W. Savannah Avenue

Valdosta, Georgia

At this workshop we will Continue reading →

Comprehensive Plan Update Workshop @ SGRC 2016-03-07

As promised, there is
an updated Work Book online, dated February 29, 2016.

Title page
As Ariel Godwin also promised, the SGRC website says:

The next workshop will be Monday, March 7, 2016, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at
the SGRC office, 327 W. Savannah Ave., Valdosta, GA.

It will be interesting to see if this version of the Work Book for the
2016 Greater Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update
contains any changes about the issues

Greg Odom raised last month (22 February 2016)
about road paving, trees, and reducing expense to the county.
And LAKE will be at the meeting with the video camera.

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Canopy roads, agriculture, materials? –Greg Odom about Comprehensive Plan Update @ SGRC 2016-02-22

So well attended there weren’t enough handouts,

as remarked on by Greg Odom,


who

later also said the proposed Comprehensive Plan Update didn’t have any plans for canopy roads, or roads on existing rights of way like in Virginia:
“For the past 25 years there has not been a healthy attitude
about people who want to maintain dirt roads.
There has been an attitude of let’s pave everything,
and let’s pave it in an outrageous way….”

Last night’s meeting was billed Continue reading →

Public Hearing, 2016 Comprehensive Plan Update @ SGRC 2016-01-19

Received Friday 5 January 2016:



Subject: Lowndes Comprehensive Plan Kickoff Jan. 19th

The kick-off public hearing for the joint Lowndes County and Cities of
Dasher, Hahira, Lake Park, Remerton, and Valdosta 2016 Comprehensive
Plan Update will be held on:

Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 W. Savannah Avenue

Valdosta, Georgia

The purpose of this public hearing will be Continue reading →

Videos: MAZ tabled + 2 small rezonings @ GLPC 2015-07-27



Once County Planner Jason Davenport admitted the
MAZ ULDC text amendments
weren’t ready (as he had indicated might happen at the same morning’s

County Commission Work Session),
and the Planning Commission recommended tabling it 4:1,
the meeting was very brief, even with the

SGRC Transportation presentation (which they weirdly heard after
adjourning the meeting, even though it was on the agenda).
The

David Brown Melody Lane rezoning
and the

Ron Borders Bemiss Road rezoning
flew through to 5:0 unanimous recommendations, with three Planning
Commissioners absent.

The

county rezoning
isn’t on the County Commission agenda yet,
and they will probably table the ULDC
MAZ item at its meeting 5:30 PM tonight.

See the Continue reading →

MAZ again + 2 small rezonings @ GLPC 2015-07-27

Planning Commission agenda is finally on county’s website


after this morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session,
which included

an item saying “The current public hearing/meeting timeline
is as follows: July 27th GLPC and July 28th LCBOC.”
Is it a public meeting if there’s no public agenda until a few hours before?

Yes, the notorious
TXT-2015-01 Moody Activity Zoning Districts (MAZ) ULDC text amendments
are back on

the GLPC agenda,
along with two small rezonings.
Plus
an SGRC Transportation presentation.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park


REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA


Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue


Monday, July 27, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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