Category Archives: Transportation

Videos: Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment, Zika @ LCC 2017-06-26



Tonight at 5:30 PM they vote on what they discussed
yesterday morning at the Lowndes County Commission.
But you won’t hear the
Zika Presentation by Ken Lowery;
that was only in the Work Session.
It was by far the longest item, at seven minutes, longer than all the rest of the meeting, which took less than six minutes.
The second longest item at almost a minute and a half was

abandonment of a portion of Ponce de Leon Trail (CR 374).

You will see them

adopt the Fiscal Year 2018 budget.
See the

previous post for more background about the budget requests
that the county almost all denied.

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Budget, Tax, Sewage Pump Station, Road Abandonment, Zika @ LCC 2017-06-26

They’re going to

adopt the county budget Tuesday, after talking about it
this morning at 8:30 AM, after complaining that nobody showed up at
a budget hearing they didn’t announce.
Also after refusing budget requests due to revenue continuing down for several years,
and not being willing to adjust taxes.

The VDT summarized,
Thomas Lynn, VDT, 23 May 2017, County Manager: Proposed budget austere; Most new funding requests denied.
And Thomas Lynn, 22 June 2017, Public absent from county budget hearing.
No wonder, since

the county didn’t even post the meeting online until that same morning, with no agenda.
The VDT wasn’t there most of the time, but Gretchen was, with the LAKE video camera.


LAKE video by Gretchen Quarterman of Harrison Tillman and Stephanie Black about Budget at the Lowndes County Annual Planning Meeting Day 1 @ LCC 2017-02-16

Photo: Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE of

Harrison Tillman and Stephanie Black about Budget at the Lowndes County Annual Planning Meeting Day 1 @ LCC 2017-02-16

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Videos: Paving, animals, speed zones, prison work details, fees @ LCC 2017-06-13



They

welcomed
Ross Berry,

the new CEO of South Georgia Medical Center,
and he spoke briefly.
Last minute agenda addition:

6.f. Lowndes County Accountability Court Grant and Match
Citzen Judy Havercamp

spoke about the animal shelter.
Citizen Shirley Garlan spoke for her neighborhood,

asking to connect to county water.

They spent by far the longest time (almost 20 minutes including public
participation) on the

New Statenville Highway rezoning for a Dollar General,
which they finally approved with conditions, including what
County Planner Jason Davenport said was an unprecedented condition on lighting.
For this item, see also the
the LAKE videos of the
preceding Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting.

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Videos: Dollar General, speed zones, prison work details, fees, road bid fail @ LCC 2017-06-12

Update 2017-06-18:
Videos: Paving, animals, speed zones, prison work details, fees @ LCC 2017-06-13.



A rare event this morning at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session:
neither Scruggs nor Reames bid on the

Resurfacing of Five County Roads and Two Alternate Projects,
and the Commissioners don’t like the bids they got.
What will they do Tuesday evening?
Accept none and try again later?
They also

went into an executive session about pending litigation.

See the agenda.
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Dollar General, speed zones, prison work details, fees, road bid fail @ LCC 2017-06-12

Here’s
the agenda
for this morning’s Work Session and tomorrow evening’s Regular Session.
See also
the LAKE videos of the previous Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting
for

the New Statenville Highway rezoning.


LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: Lake Park Zoning Amendment, 2 VLD, Lowndes County P-D to C-G @ GLPC 2017-05-30



The

rezoning at New Statenville Highway and Boring Pond Road might have passed with no conditions
if they hadn’t mentioned it’s for a Dollar General.

The Planning Commissioners wanted to see a map of the effects of the

proposed Lake Park text amendment, so they tabled it.
They considered

the two Valdosta items together
and unanimously approved each of them separately.

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Videos: 3:2 county:city family ties, family residential, 3 setbacks @ ZBOA 2017-06-06



Last thing last Tuesday, they

approved a newspaper insert to commemorate former ZBOA member Mike Hill,
who recently died.

ZBOA
granted 5:1

a request in VAR-2017-06
for lots smaller than in the county’s Family ties requirement.
Again 5:1
they granted the

VAR-2017-07 request for a barn setback.
For each of those cases, one person spoke for.

In

“yet another case that came about due to a recent survey”,
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3:2 county:city family ties, family residential, 3 setbacks @ ZBOA 2017-06-0506



2:30 PM today (really today now on Tuesday):
welcome new member Victoria Copeland, a realtor,
for three setbacks, a family ties, and a family residential case
at the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA).

Update 2017-06-06:
the board packet.

Here is the agenda:

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

June 6, 2017

2:30 p.m.

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Lake Park Zoning Amendment, Lowndes County P-D to C-G @ GLPC 2017-05-30

Update 2017-05-31: Forgot the two Valdosta cases.

Tonight there’s a very light agenda at the Planning Commission,
with one zoning change from Lake Park,
and one very small rezoning in Lowndes County
at the corner of New Statenville Highway and Boring Pond Road.


Parcel ID 0239 069

Parcel ID 0239 069, Lowndes County Tax Assessors

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Videos: Reappointment to Airport Authority, raise convenience fees, Moody AFB swimming pool @ LCC 2017-05-22



Six minutes and ten seconds yesterday morning
to breeze through the

agenda for the Work Session;
the Lowndes County Commission votes tonight at 5:30 PM.
Also,

the Chairman announced
the
Budget Work Session to start at 9AM,
which didn’t match the posting about that time put on the county’s website.

Tonight they will very likely

reappoint Jeff Sikes to the

Airport Authority,
increase

“convenience fees for online and telephone payments to $2.50 per transaction”, some

I-75 exit work, and a

swimming pool at Moody Air Force Base.
Plus a

beer and wine license due to the usual change of ownership,
and an

HVAC maintenance contract.