Category Archives: Transportation

Videos: Public Facilities Authority, Health Fair @ LCC 2017-10-09



The longest item was not on the agenda:
a

Health Fair Update
in the County Manager’s Report.

They breezed through everything else including

5 a. Lowndes County Public Facilities Authority Appointment
,
although the Chairman did have another name to propose.

Below are links to the LAKE video of each item,
plus a very few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also Continue reading

Videos: Ten cases @ ZBOA 2017-10-03



A backlog since June is a lot of cases, and in the interests of time
I have not watched the whole thing; instead I’m posting now.
A
Summary of Actions
should appear soon on the Valdosta website for
the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals.
See also

the agenda

and board packet,
is
which is on the LAKE website
,
courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.
Gretchen also set up the LAKE video camera behind the board this time.
Links to the two LAKE videos appear below, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

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Appointments to Public Facilities Authority @ LCC 2017-10-09

Appointments to the board that floated bonds for the county palace,
REZ-2017-10 Laurel Run Homes, and two road abandonments,
to be considered this morning at 8:30 AM and voted on Tuesday evening.

What is the Lowndes County Georgia Public Facilities Authority, which issued
the bonds
548757BE2
and
548757BG7
“Refunding Judicial Administration Complex”?


According to

the county’s website

it’s a Continue reading

Ten cases @ ZBOA 2017-10-03

They haven’t met since June, and today the decision-making Zoning Board of Appelas has
the longest agenda ever.
The packet, courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman,
is on the LAKE website.


Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

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Videos: Hurricane Irma, Register rezoning, Utility Authority @ LCC 2017-09-26

23 minutes last night to approve 3:2 with many conditions rezoning the

6c. REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate
,
with no shouting afterwards like there was at at the previous evening’s Planning Commission meeting,
yet a lot of grumbling at the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session,
especially since they seem to have forgotten the greenspace condition.


Biggest crowd in a long time, REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate

I would like to commend the Commission for the amount and depth of discussion in this meeting, especially in the unscheduled

10. Commission Comments and Recognitions and Meeting Adjournment
, which was mostly about Clay Griner’s idea of having
a county-wide utility authority including all the cities in the county.
Update 2017-10-20: moved the rest of this utility authority commentary down to the video item below.

Also not on the agenda was

Chairman Slaughter comments on community response to Hurricane Irma

(which were mostly about county staff; well-deserved especially for Ashley Tye) and

Georgia Power Representative recognizes county hurricane response
.

While it’s great that Georgia Power came to compliment the county,
does that electric utility rep. reside in or pay property taxes in Lowndes County, and why was he not required to state his name and address?
Ditto the software salesman for Continue reading

Videos: Return of Register + Laurel Run, Tucker Road @ GLPC 2017-09-25



There was shouting last night at the end of

REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate
,
because some people didn’t like a recommendation for rezoning
even with numerous conditions attached.
That one took almost an hour, far longer than all the rest of the agenda.
Tonight at 5:30 PM this rezoning in Lake Park

goes to the Lowndes County Commision for the actual
decision
;
they

already discussed it yesterday morning
.

Below are LAKE videos of last night’s Planning Commission meeting.
See also Continue reading

Videos: HEAT on Lake Park @ LCC 2017-09-25



Yesterday morning, most lengthhy at 6 minutes was

6c. REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate
,
followed at 2 minutes by

7 a. Amended Motorized Cart Ordinance
.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the Work Session of 25 September 2017.
See also the previous notes with
the agenda.
For the three rezoning cases, see also
the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission meetings of
28 August 2017
and
25 September 2017.

Return of Register + Laurel Run, Tucker Road @ GLPC 2017-09-25

Tabled last month,

REZ-2017-09 Robert A. Register Estate

is back on

the Planning Commission agenda
for tonight.
Meanwhile

the Lowndes County Commission already discussed it this morning

and is scheduled to vote on this rezoning Tuesday evening.


TRC table of recommendations, REZ-2017-19 Register Estate



TRC Table of recommendations for REZ-2017-09
.

Plus

REZ-2017-10 Laurel Run Homes, LLC
and
REZ-2017-08 West Ridge Business Park.

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HEAT on the agenda @ LCC 2017-09-25

This morning, 8:30 AM, all of the items from
the previous cancelled meeting
are back on
the agenda, for voting Tuesday 5:30 PM.
Plus four more:

  1. For Consideration:

    1. Addendum to the Withlacoochee Flood Inundation Mapping Project
    2. USGS Funding Agreement for Hwy 122 Stream Gauge
    3. Public Safety Information Technology Purchase
    4. High Enforcement of Aggressive Traffic (HEAT), Document:

      HISTORY, FACTS, AND ISSUES: The certified Lowndes County fatality
      rate: 2006-14, 2007-14, 2008~19, 2009-16, 2010-18, 2011-15,
      2012-11, 2013-7, 2014-14, 2015-19, 2016-20. Any traffic
      fatality in Lowndes County is too many. For numerous years, the
      county has been plagued with an unacceptable fatality rate.
      Consistently for ten years between 2006 and 2016 we suffered with as
      much as nineteen people dying annually in crashes. In April 2012 the
      Sheriff created the SPEED team which joined forces with the Valdosta
      Police HEAT team. Together both agencies diligently fought to reduce
      the fatality rate. In 2013, Lowndes County recorded an unprecedented
      lowest rate of the decade with seven fatalities.


      radar gun


      Photo:

      Valdosta Daily Times

      Soon after, the
      police department lost their HEAT team which contributed to a Continue reading

SGRC Regional Plan Update Workshop in Valdosta 2017-09-21

Received yesterday:

Good Morning,

A quick reminder for our 1st Regional Plan Update Workshop on:

September 21st, 2017 9:30a to 12:30p

Valdosta SGRC Offices at 327 W. Savannah Ave

The first workshop will cover the following topics:


Regional Bicycle Corridors


Regional Bicycle Corridors

  1. Review the existing issues and opportunities within the Region
    and determine whether Continue reading