Category Archives: Transportation

Videos: Community Policies, Comprehensive Plan Workshop #5 @ SGRC 2016-04-18



One video for all the
fifth workshop
on
Community Facilities & Services and
Intergovernmental Coordination for the Comprehensive Plan Update for Greater Lowndes County.

Here’s

a video playlist:
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Videos: KLVB, DFCS, SGCSB, LCLB appointments, prisoners, mosquitos, grants, contracts, and a sidewalk bid @ LCC 2016-06-13



Sandra Tooley, Valdosta City Council District 2,
was among the very few people present who did not have business on
the agenda of the
Lowndes County County Commission Work Session this Monday morning.
They vote 5:30 PM Tuesday evening.

Below are LAKE videos of Monday morning’s Work Session, with a few notes,
followed by a video playlist. Continue reading

Videos: Policies, Workshop #6 @ SGRC 2016-05-09



Educating people upstream about things they could do to reduce flooding,
was among the topics discussed by Gretchen with the small sixth workshop that on Monday May 9th 2016
reviewed the Policies section
(Word,
PDF)
of the 19 April 2016 Workbook
for the Update to the Greater Lowndes Comprehensive Plan, as

Ariel Godwin said in advance
.

Here’s

a video playlist:

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KLVB, DFCS, SGCSB, LCLB appointments, prisoners, mosquitos, grants, contracts, and a sidewalk bid @ LCC 2016-06-13



Here’s the
agenda
for this morning’s 8:30 AM Work Session and tomorrow evening’s voting Regular Session:
will the Lowndes County Commission spend more on mosquito testing than on renting prisoners from Valdosta State Prison?
(Answer: no,

$45,790 on mosquitos

and

$118,500 on three prisoner work details
at $39,500 each:

“The details are utilized in the maintenance of over 5,000 easements that require manual hand cutting.”

Hm, if the county didn’t insist on 80-foot easements….

They’re also

appointing people to four different boards
.
If you wanted to apply, how would you know to do so?

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2016, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Videos: Abandoned Voting @ LCC 2016-05-24



Record low attendance, not record but very short session time,
even with a full agenda;
at least you can see last month’s last Lowndes County Commission Regular Session in these LAKE videos.
They meet again 8:30 AM this morning.

See also the LAKE videos of the May 23rd Work Session.
In the May 24th Regular Session, there were
still no questions yesterday from Commissioners about that $55,979.00 in

two
no-bid
items.

Commissioner Demarcus Marshall did ask Continue reading

Public Transit Open House @ VLMPO 2016-06-28

Received yesterday via email:


June 28 2016 Open House

Dear Stakeholders,

I am pleased to let you know that the Valdosta Urbanized Area
Transit Implementation Study is well under development and it is
time to share the draft recommendations with you and with the
community. With your help, we reached over 500 members of the
community through our online survey this Spring! The input has been
very helpful in the development of the study and in fine-tuning our
Pilot Shuttle Program which just received additional funding to
operate through September of this year.

We will hold a Transit Implementation Study Open House from noon to
7pm on Tuesday, June 28 at the Lowndes County Judicial and
Administrative Complex, 327 N. Ashley Street, Valdosta, GA 31601. We
look forward to Continue reading

Existing and future land use and character area maps @ SGRC 2016-06-06

Received by email today this
Reminder:


Lowndes County Future Development Map

The final workshop for the Joint 2016 Lowndes County and Cities of
Dasher, Hahira, Lake Park, Remerton, and Valdosta Comprehensive Plan
Update will be:

Monday, June 6, 2016

5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

SGRC office, 327 W. Savannah Avenue, Valdosta

At this workshop we will review the existing land use and future
land use or character area maps.

The entire plan workbook can be downloaded at: Continue reading

Videos: Abandon Beaver Lane, Aging Development Appointments, Kinderlou Lift Station Pump @ LCC 2016-05-23

Will they take longer to vote this evening at 5:30 PM than the
8 1/2 minutes for yesterday morning’s Work Session with


a full agenda?

No questions yesterday from Commissioners about that $55,979.00 in

two
no-bid
items, although the County Manager did say “quotes” about the .
lift station pump.
The

County Manager’s Report

did say he’d received
an annexation request from Hahira for the W. Main St. property and he indicated no grounds for the county to protest.

The only question from a Commissioner was about which one of them
might be picked to serve with

“Ms. Andrea Schuijer”

on the

South Regional Joint Development Authority
.
Answer: maybe Clay Griner.
Nobody asked why

the county’s web page on that Joint Authority

says Andrea Schruijer is already on it.
Is this a reappointment?
And which slots are vacant?
Also, what does this Joint Authority do?

For the
Southern Georgia Area Agency on Aging,
yes it’s Commissioner Joyce Evans for reappointment.

County Engineer Mike Fletcher said

the Beaver Lane closing

previously came up in 2002 and was denied,
but now some of the opponents from then are for it.
Tonight is not the public hearing: merely a determination on scheduling a public hearing. Continue reading

Abandon Beaver Lane, Aging Development Appointments, Kinderlou Lift Station Pump @ LCC 2016-05-23

This morning’s 8:30 AM
$45,600.00 for new grounds for four

radio towers
:
was it in the budget, or is this another emergency no-bid item?
Ditto the $10,379.00 for the
Kinderlou Lift Station Pump?
Each item names only one company quoting.

After

abandoning Beaver Lane
, will the county vote to fix it as a private road,

4689 Mt. Zion Road, parcel 0061 01

like they did with

Carter Way
?
And from whom did the county receive the abandonment request?
Will the

County Manager’s Report

include
the Hahira W. Main St. annexation?

Also on
the Lowndes County Commission agenda
for discussion Monday morning and vote Tuesday evening,
appointing

“Ms. Andrea Schuijer and a Commissioner”

to the Continue reading

Videos: Attorneys v Carter Way tar baby, Appointment, big subdivision, Hwy 84 lift station @ LCC 2016-05-10



Multiple attorneys (ka-ching!) were needed

to negotiate access for the county to fix private Carter Way
,
which the Lowndes County Commission approved unanimously at its 10 May 2016
Regular Session.
This is the same Commission that signed an easement with Sabal Trail
because they didn’t want to spend attorney fees to defend a lawsuit.
The same Sabal Trail that wants to put its three-foot pipe only three feet deep

just downhill from where Carter Way washed out
.

County Planner Jason Davenport showed an updated site plan for

6.a. REZ-2016-10 Freedom Heights, 4301 Bemiss Rd, C-H to P-D
,
but as usual it’s not posted on the county’s website, and you had no way
of seeing it before the meeting unless you filed an open records request
three days before.

Commissioner Clay Griner remembered flooding, fence, and forgot the third thing
a constituent asked him for about

6.b. REZ-2016-11 Creekside West Subdivision, 7551 GA Hwy 122 W
.
Developer Young Tillman said the changes were because Continue reading