Three rezonings are back from
last month
on
the agenda for the Lowndes County Commission Work Session
this morning at 8:30 AM.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2017, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2017, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
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2:30 PM today:
one county case,
VAR-2016-27 just outside Hahira,
on a very light
agenda
for the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals.
The entire
board packet is on the LAKE website.
Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin, Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator
300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 259-3563Carmella Braswell, Lowndes County Zoning Administrator
327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 671-2430AGENDA
January 3, 2017
2:30 p.m.
Even FPL is doing solar power now, as evidenced by these pictures
John Horton sent back from Daytona yesterday.
So, FPL, how about cancel Sabal Trail and help the sun rise faster on the Sunshine State?
Kelly Pickerel, Solar Power World, 19 February 2016,
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Bill Branham’s
Copeland Road development
got six minutes of discussion, the longest in yesterday morning’s Work Session,
with others of the seven rezonings also getting discussion,
plus, surprisingly, the
proposed VOCA grant, because the outgoing DA spoke.
They vote tonight at 5:30 PM.
I would like to compliment the Commissioners on asking questions and
having discussion in the Work Session.
Even ever-silent Joyce Evans spoke up about
the MIDS on-call bus system grant re-application.
They’re going to
reappoint Dr. Randy Smith to the Board of Health.
Chairman Bill Slaughter said:
“Inside your packets you have a letter from Dr. Grove supporting Dr. Smith.”
But we the citizens, taxpayers, and recipients of health care didn’t get to see that letter.
The Chairman went on to recommend Dr. Smith, and I thank him for making that recommendation in public where we could all see and hear it.
Dr. Smith is probably a fine board member: that’s not the point.
The point is if the public could see these things they might have useful input,
not to mention it’s the public’s business the Commission is doing.
Similarly Commissioners had
a quarterly financial report “before you”,
but the public couldn’t see it.
If
tiny Effingham County can publish its County Commission packets,
mighty Lowndes County could to it, too.
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Longest agenda in recent memory, for this morning’s Work Session
and tomorrow evening’s Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
For the rezonings, see also the LAKE videos of the preceding Planning Commission meeting.
For the abandonment of unopened right of way on Avenue I, see the LAKE videos of last month’s Lowndes County Commission meeting.
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LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2016, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
2:30 PM today:
parking on a
triangular lot in Lake Park
and a variance to
re-establish a mobile home in Valdosta
make a light
agenda
for the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals.
Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin, Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator
300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 259-3563Carmella Braswell, Lowndes County Zoning Administrator
327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 671-2430AGENDA
November 1, 2016
2:30 p.m.
Requested at the work session two weeks ago,
and
now on
the agenda for Monday morning,
a resolution for an arts district.
That and
reappoint Wild Adventures GM Molly Deese to the Tourism Authority,
a
public hearing on the 2016 updates to the Greater Lowndes Comprehensive Plan (even though they tabled it last time),
and the usual
Bid,
surplus,
and
subdivision infrastructure sorts of items.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2016, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2016, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
Two weeks ago,
County Manager Joe Pritchard announced that
Commissioner Joyce Evans is now serving as Vice Chairman,
yes, the
resolution to approve the VSU bonds
was requested by the
South Regional Joint Development Authority (SRJDA),
and
John Stevens is the new VDT reporter.
Citizen Shirley Moore said she’d like a connection to
county water and sewer.
They tabled the
Comprehensive Plan update, apparently because the Commissioners wanted to
“dig into it deeper”.
The rest was mostly approving what they
already discussed the previous morning.
They meet again Monday morning.
Below are links to each LAKE video with a few notes, followed by a video playlist.
The Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline and others already in the county
came up in the
Comprehensive Plan approval discussion, as you can see in these
LAKE Videos from Monday morning; they vote tonight 5:30 PM.
Stephen Spradley and Georgia Forestry
were still helping after Hurricane Matthew,
but
Ashley Tye reported on evacuees,
Chad McLeod
reported on engineering projects including the Naylor Boat Ramp at the Alapaha River,
and
Angela Crance reported on
an art district; actually Buddy Boswell did that.
They also heard about a
self storage rezoning,
three
road abandonments, a
road widening, the annual
MIDS bus service renewal,
and
a
county resolution about bonds for another private LLC by the
South Regional Joint Development Authority (SRJDA),
different from the one
with the public hearing October 21st at a private law firm.
What does the resolution say?
It’s not in the documents with
the agenda.
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Monday morning 8:30 AM,
a
self storage rezoning, (final?)
Comprehensive Plan approval,
three
road abandonments, a
road widening, the annual
MIDS bus service renewal,
an
art district presentation by Angela Crance,
a
Georgia Forestry presentation by Stephen Spradley,
and
a
county resolution about bonds for another private LLC by the
South Regional Joint Development Authority (SRJDA),
different from the one
with the public hearing October 21st at a private law firm.
What does the resolution say?
It’s not in the documents with
the agenda.
U.S. Air Force Col. Billy Thompson, 23d Wing commander, expresses his gratitude to Continue reading