Category Archives: Transportation

This morning at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session,
two appointments to the Hospital Authority of Valdosta and Lowndes County
with six candidates,
two small rezonings,
a reimbursed grant for Juvenile Justice Court, renewal of the mosquito contract,
and abandonment of some of Boring Pond Road.

Rezonings

Here are the candidates for Continue reading →

Videos: DUI Court, Cyber Security, Road Paving, Water and Sewer, and Budget @ LCC 2022-06-27

Update 2022-06-28:
Three Citizens, budget, DUI, water, sewer, paving, cyber security, tractor @ LCC 2022-06-28.

Yesterday morning at their 11-minute Work Session the Lowndes County Commission and staff ran through everything as fast as the items could be read off.

Vice-Chair Scottie Orenstein presided in the absence of Chairman Bill Slaughter.

Items

They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.

Below are Continue reading →

Videos: Two controversial rezonings, Medical Council, Courts, Prisoners, Utilties @ LCC Regular 2022-06-16

Update 2022-09-12: REZ-2022-10 The Campus redo because previous decision was illegal:
Packet: redo 2 rezonings, 3 extraterritorial water & sewer, $438,537 RR crossing, $2,542,586 Griner Park @ LCC 2022-09-12.

One rezoning was
tabled until August 9th,
then another was

contentiously approved,
after which

a deputy escorted one opponent out of the room,
at the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session, June 16, 2022.

Debra Tann Presentation, three rezonings

The third rezoning

was approved with conditions,
followed by another

NIMBY walkout.
That one had petitions both for and against,
now
on the LAKE website.

The fourth rezoning was Continue reading →

Construction board appointment, Budget, DUI Court, water and sewer, TIA, and cyber security @ LCC 2022-06-27

Update 2022-06-28:
Videos: DUI Court, Cyber Security, Road Paving, Water and Sewer, and Budget @ LCC 2022-06-27.

No rezonings this week, but a board appointment,
budget adoption, money shuffling for the DUI Court,
and two water and sewer infrastructure adoptions that,
as usual,
Lowndes County pretends will not cost the taxpayers money.
Plus a mower for Public Works and some cyber security stuff.
All at the Monday morning Work Session
and the Tuesday 5:30 PM Regular Session.

Both pages of the agenda

Here is
the agenda.
A LAKE open records request has gone in for the board packet.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2022, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: Request to table, another rezoning withdrawn @ LCC 2020-06-16

Update 2022-06-28: LAKE videos,
Two controversial rezonings, Medical Council, Courts, Prisoners, Utilties @ LCC Regular 2022-06-16.

The applicant’s request to table
7.a. REZ-2022-09 Flannigan, James Rd.
until August was met with scepticism by Commissioner Scottie Orenstein,
who said it sounded like panic after the Planning Commission had unanimously
recommended denial.
But he said it would be OK since the stated purpose of tabling was for the
applicant to talk to the opponents, who are numerous.

Rezonings, Courts, Paving, Water

There is also a petition and letters against
7.b. REZ-2022-10 The Campus Transitional Care Facility, 2193 Howell Rd.,
and the neighboring property owner opposes, as two Commissioners clarified.

County Planner JD Dillard said there were petitions pro and con the
Dairy Queen rezoning,
7.c. REZ-2022-11 Makesh, LLC, 900 Lakes Blvd.
We have not seen them, but we have sent in an open records request for them.
Update 2022-06-28: for those two peitions, see,
Two controversial rezonings, Medical Council, Courts, Prisoners, Utilties @ LCC Regular 2022-06-16.

The fourth rezoning,
7.d. REZ-2022-12 Pittman, Phelps, Leonard, Moss Oak Trail,
was withdrawn by the applicant.

The Commissioners vote this evening at 5:30 PM in the Regular Session.
Before that, Continue reading →

Videos: Everything unanimously approved in fifteen minutes @ LCC 2022-05-24

The Lowndes County Commission approved everything as fast as they could
hear each item read and vote,
at their fifteen-minute Regular Session of May 24, 2022.

Some agenda items

Below are Continue reading →

Packet: Petitions and letters against rezonings @ LCC 2022-06-16

Update 2022-06-16:
Videos: Request to table, another rezoning withdrawn @ LCC 2022-06-16.

Many letters and petition signatures against two rezonings

REZ-2022-09 Flannigan, James Rd.
and

REZ-2022-10 The Campus Transitional Care Facility, 2193 Howell Rd.

I hear there’s actually a petition for the Dairy Queen of

REZ-2022-11 Makesh, LLC, 900 Lakes Blvd.
However, that petition is not in the packet as sent by Lowndes County in response to a LAKE open records request.

The Commissioners vote this evening at 5:30 PM in the Regular Session.
Before that, at 5:00 PM, is a Budget Public Hearing.

Rezonings, Courts, and Water

The packet is
on the LAKE website.
See also the
agenda.
And for the rezonings, the
preceding Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting.

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4 rezonings, 2 xourts, 1 appointment, and a big ARPA-funded water project @ LCC 2022-06-16

Update 2022-06-16:
Packet: Petitions and letters against rezonings @ LCC 2022-06-16.

For some reason, the Lowndes County Commission is holding both its Work and Regular Sessions on this Thursday, June 16, 2022.
I hear they are in DC lobbying the federal government on Monday and Tuesday.

They are also holding a 5 PM Budget Public Hearing before the 5:30 PM Regular Session.

Rezonings

Here is the
agenda.
For the rezonings, see also the
preceding Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2022, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: 4 long Lowndes County cases + 2 long Valdosta cases @ GLPC 2022-05-23

Update 2022-06-14: Agenda,
4 rezonings, 2 xourts, 1 appointment, and a big ARPA-funded water project @ LCC 2022-06-16

An overflow crowd, some in the lobby, came for the four Lowndes County cases
at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission, May 23, 2022.
Two of the Valdosta cases were also contentious.
The whole meeting took more than three hours, so long there was griping about people getting hungry.
The door alarm went off at 8 o’clock, but they plowed ahead with three remaining cases.
When they adjourned at 8:52 PM, nobody was left in the audience but Gretchen Quarterman with the LAKE video camera.

Flannigan, Campus, Makesh, Pittman

One

county and one

city case were on James Road.
The county case got a unanimous recommendation to deny,
moved by famously pro-development Franklin Bailey.
The Commissioners really did not seem to like “speculative commercial use on the subject property.” Continue reading →

Videos: Two Valdosta items, Walkers Crossing Roundabout, Reports @ LCC 2022-05-23

Update 2022-06-16:
Videos: Everything unanimously approved in fifteen minutes @ LCC 2022-05-24.

Not even two minutes on any business item at the most recent Lowndes County Work Session.

Attorney, Utilities, Engineering, Manager

The answer to which roads on the

LMIG item is that Continue reading →

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