Category Archives: Transportation

Videos: Opioid Vaginal Mesh, Military Utility, No Probation @ LCC 2018-04-23

Yesterday morning Chairman Bill Slaughter

looked straight at the LAKE video camera and said:
“We’ll have a record-setting short meeting tomorrow, with one agenda item.”
Then he chuckled.



The Work Session was 17 minutes and 35 seconds, because of 12 minutes on the

Special Presentation by Andrew Hill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session).

The longest other item was 3 minutes on

6 b. Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution,
which wasn’t ready yet, and is what the Chairman removed from the agenda for tonight.

Indeed it didn’t take five minutes, not even half a minute, for them not to discuss

6 a. Grant Of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons.

Below are Continue reading →

Opioid Military Utility Probation @ LCC 2018-04-23

Maybe 15 minutes because of the
Special Presentation by Andrew Hill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session).

It won’t take them five minutes to discuss

a water and sewer easement
for the sinkhole-prone recently-renamed

Moody Family Housing Housing,
now called Azalea Commons,
which is
in a recharge zone for the Floridan Aquifer from which we all drink.
That subdivision only has water and sewer lines running by it up Val Del Road
because
the county ran those lines to enable
the Nelson Hill subdivision,
for which the county permitted razing wetlands, and
which then mysteriously

got staff variances to avoid building condominiums,
mixed elevations, or becoming a gated community.


WRPDO Site Map, Moody Family Housing, REZ-2013-09


WRPDO Site Map, Moody Family Housing, REZ-2013-09.

It’s unlikely to take longer for them to discuss the
Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution.

Here’s

the agenda.
Gretchen is on her way there with the LAKE video camera.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

  1. Call to Order

  2. Invocation

  3. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag

  4. Special Presentation by Andrew Hill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session)

  5. Minutes for Approval

    1. Work Session- April 9, 2018

    2. Regular Session- April 10, 2018
  6. For Consideration

    1. Grant Of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons

      ACC Group Housing, LLC desires to Grant Lowndes county an easement and right of way to provide access to service and maintain the water and sewer lines serving the Azalea Commons residential area.

      Documents:Grant of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons.pdf

    2. Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution

      Approval of probation plan and resolution

      Documents:Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution.pdf

  7. Reports – County Manager

  8. Citizens Wishing to be Heard-Please State Your Name and Address

  9. Adjournment

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Videos: Proclamations, Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-10



The two longest items were proclamations, for the

Teen Explosion Youth Action Group
and for

Telecommunications Week.
Everything else sailed through.

Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See previous post
for Continue reading →

Still inconsistent, but has speed humps: Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan 2018

The little-known
Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan
drives development in Lowndes County.
With no public notice and no public hearing.
the Commissioners voted on it Tuesday, April 10, 2018.
Probably you only heard that would happen if you looked at their
agenda late last week,
or you happened to read
what I wrote about it Monday.


Lowndes County Road Map

Obtained through open records request, it’s on

the LAKE website now.

Like the 2009 plan, Continue reading →

Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-09

You can’t see the
Special Presentation by Attorney Haynes Studstill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session)
because Gretchen was not there with the LAKE video camera yesterday morning,
and

the agenda
says it’s only in the Work Session.
Lowndes County does video its own County Commission meetings,
but they haven’t posted the video of that yet.
Meanwhile, the City of Valdosta did

decide to join a lawsuit against big pharma about opioid addiction.
Another county legal item for tonight is
FY2019 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program Request for Proposals (RFP).

They’re doing an
Update to the Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan, which is for:


Road Map, Maps

Road Map,

2009 Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan.

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners
first adopted the Thoroughfare Plan in 1983. Since then, the
Thoroughfare Plan has been revised numerous times Continue reading →

Videos: North Oak Street, Lakeland Highway, Rocky Ford Road @ GLPC 2018-03-26

The Planning Commission had a large crowd,
including County Commissioner Joyce Evans and Chairman Bill Slaughter
visible lower left, and that may be Commissioner Mark Wisenbaker in front of them.


lower left: Joyce Evans, Bill Slaughter, Lowndes County Commission, Crowd

Most of them

left after the

North Oak Street
planned development, excuse me, rezoning,
took almost an hour.
See the notes on that item below for a spoiler for what happened to it later.

Second longest at almost fourteen minutes was the

Lakeland Highway rezoning, in which the current owners
apparently were trying to fix a problem left them by previous owners.

Third at almost seven minutes was a tie between
the

CR Ventures (Camp Rock again) rezoning on Rocky Ford Road
and
the

Kaylyn Gill Tucker rezoning on Enoch Lake Road,
carving out a plot for a single house from a planned development.

Below are Continue reading →

Rocky Ford Road again @ GLPC 2018-03-26

This

CR Ventures rezoning on
the agenda for tonight
is two doors down on Rocky Ford Road from
the recent

Camp Rock rezoning, again for a Watkins,
and again represented by Jack Langdale.
Coincidence, or related?


Parcel 0062 025, 20.94 acres, 4394 ROCKY FORD ROAD, VALDOSTA GA 31601, Map

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


Lowndes County


City of Valdosta


City of Dasher


City of Hahira


City of Lake Park



REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA



Monday, March 26, 2018 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing


Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Continue reading →

Videos: Branham subdivision, Trash, RR crossing @ LCC 2018-03-13



Most of the meeting (13 and a half minutes) was about

Bill Branham’s subdivision,
which passed,
with the Chairman breaking the tie because one Commissioner recused himself.
Opponents took up almost another minute

leaving the room.

On a split vote the Commission

declined to modify the solid waste ordinance to give the County Manager more power.

Second longest at more than 6 minutes was

Michael J. Killeen’s R-A to M-1 rezoning.
Virdie Mae Lyons got her

well and septic rezoning in a minute and a half.

Two water items:

not clear how much Continue reading →

Videos: Conference Center, Branham subdivision, Trash, RR crossing @ LCC 2018-03-12



Lengthiest at more than three and a half minutes was

the Bill Branham subdivision rezoning,
plus a tie for second at 2 minutes 13 seconds between

the new Conference Center CEO
and

the
Virdie Mae Lyons Old Clyattvile Road well and septic rezoning,
at yesterday morning’s Work Session.
Gretchen is off with the LAKE video camera to the voting Regular Session
tonight.

The County Manager wants more power through

an ordinance
that would further favor Advanced Disposal Services (ADS)
over Deep South Sanitation (DSS).

Two water items: Continue reading →

Conference Center, Branham subdivision, Trash, RR crossing @ LCC 2018-03-12

On

the agenda
for Monday’s Work Session,

the agenda
a word from the

new-as-of-January CEO (not Executive Director) of the

Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority.
On the agenda for both Monday and Tuesday evening’s Regular Session,
Bill Branham’s Copeland Road subdivision,
back for at least the third time in four calendar years,
plus

an ordinance
that would further favor Advanced Disposal Services (ADS)
over Deep South Sanitation (DSS).
Better news:

bids for a
Portable 65 KW Generator to keep lift stations from leaking.


Chris Hamilton

Photo: Chris Hamilton via

Valdosta Daily Times.

See also
the LAKE videos
of the most recent Planning Commission meeting for all three rezoning cases,
and that post also has
links to videos of most
of the previous appearances of the Branham Project.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

  1. Call to Order

  2. Invocation

  3. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag

  4. Chris Hamilton- CEO, Valdosta- Lowndes County Conference Center and Tourism Authority (Work Session)

  5. Minutes for Approval

    1. Work Session- February 26, 2018

    2. Regular Session- February 27, 2018
  6. Public Hearing

    1. REZ-2018-04 Lyons, 1350 Old Clyattville Rd, R-A to C-H, Well and Septic, 8.05 acres

      GLPC Recommendation: Approval
      TRC Recommendation: Various

      Documents:Rezoning Case REZ-2018-04.pdf

    2. REZ-2018-05 Killeen, 1228 S Main St, R-A to M-1, 27.5 acres

      GLPC Recommendation: Approval with 1 Condition (Paving)
      TRC Recommendation: Various

      Documents:Rezoning Case REZ-2018-05.pdf

    3. REZ-2018-07 Branham Project, 2480 Copeland Rd, R-1 to R-10 Water/Sewer, 18.04 acres

      GLPC Recommendation: Approval with 4 Conditions
      TRC Recommendation: Various   

      Documents:Rezoning Case REZ-2018-07.pdf

  7. For Consideration

    1. Transportation Safety Improvements Agreement

      Execute Agreement

      Documents:Transportation Safety Improvements Agreement.pdf

    2. Ordinance Amending 2015 Solid Waste Disposal Ordinance

      Approval of ordinance

      Documents:Ordinance Amending 2015 Solid Waste Disposal Ordinance.pdf

    3. Water Meter and Register Replacement

      Approval of water meter and register replacement

      Documents:Water Meter and Register Replacement.pdf

    4. Beer License- Marilyn Lewis of Palak Corporation DBA Bigfoot #908 – 1255 Lakes Blvd., Lake Park, GA

      Approval of Beer License

      Documents:Beer License- Marilyn Lewis of Palak Corporation DBA Bigfoot 908 Lakes Blvd, Lake Park, GA.pdf

  8. Bid

    1. Portable 65 KW Generator

      Bids solicited for a 65 KW portable generator to service smaller lift stations that do not have backup generators. Staff recommends awarding bid to Cowart Electric for $49,750.00

      Documents:Portable 65 KW Generator.pdf

  9. Reports – County Manager

  10. Citizens Wishing to be Heard-Please State Your Name and Address

  11. Adjournment

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