Category Archives: Valdosta City Council

Cemetery, residence, parking, housing, appointments to 5 boards @ VCC 2016-02-11

For the Valdosta

four public hearings tonight at 5:30 PM,


see first the LAKE videos of the Planning Commission Work Session and Regular Session.
That

cemetery rezoning is quite controversial.

The
housing resolution
may be related to proposed joint city-county nonprofit for rehab housing in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity.

Also, Valdosta has
a new website, apparently as of yesterday;
follow

this link for more about that and an online survey.

Here’s the agenda. Continue reading →

Videos: Chancy R6M, Stallings Road Cemetery, 4 County cases, one to E-A @ GLPC 2016-01-25



The Lowndes County cases
are the ones the County Commission is reviewing
this morning in their Work Session.
GLPC recommended approval for all of them, with conditions on one,
REZ-2016-03 Jacob Eckwahl on US 41 South.

See also the GLPC agenda
and the
LAKE videos of the 19 Jan 2016 GLPC Work Session.
Below are the LAKE videos of the 25 Jan 2016 GLPC Regular Session,
followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

Videos: Chancy R6M, Stallings Road Cemetery, 4 County cases, one to E-A @ GLPC 2016-01-19



Not on
the agenda,
they started with

a public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan.
Expecting from

the email announcement about the Comprehensive Plan
that this would be a typical SGRC tables-and-easels mill-about meeting,
I didn’t show up on the dot and was quite surprised to find
the Planning Commission and staff in their usual spots.
See separate post.

Here are the LAKE videos with some notes, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

Chancy R6M, Stallings Road Cemetery, 4 County cases, one to E-A @ GLPC 2016-01-25



The owner of

a parcel on US 41 South wants to rezone

from R-10 back to Estate Agriculture.
That Lowndes County case is the opposite of the Hahira case that wants
rezoning

from single-family to multi-family,
and there are many other cases in between, plus

another cemetery case!

Here’s

the agenda for Monday’s Regular Session, and also for last Monday’s
Work Session, even though it doesn’t say that.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park


REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA


Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue


Tuesday, January 25, 2016 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Six board slots to be appointed by Valdosta

You have to live in Lowndes County, but not necessarily in Valdosta,
to volunteer to serve on one of these appointed boards.
City of Valdosta PR 14 January 2016,
Six Opportunities to Serve in New Year,



Valdosta-Lowndes County residents who have made serving their
community a New Year’s resolution have until Wednesday, Feb. 3, to
apply for one of six city appointments to serve on a board,
commission, authority or advisory committee.

The Valdosta City Council will vote on the new appointments at their
Feb. 11 City Council meeting to fill the following vacancies:

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Public Hearing, 2016 Comprehensive Plan Update @ SGRC 2016-01-19

Received Friday 5 January 2016:



Subject: Lowndes Comprehensive Plan Kickoff Jan. 19th

The kick-off public hearing for the joint Lowndes County and Cities of
Dasher, Hahira, Lake Park, Remerton, and Valdosta 2016 Comprehensive
Plan Update will be held on:

Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 W. Savannah Avenue

Valdosta, Georgia

The purpose of this public hearing will be Continue reading →

5 cities & Lowndes County: Community Planning Meeting @ LCC Planning 2016-01-19

It’s a good idea. It would be an even better idea if there was time scheduled for citizen input and responses from the assembled elected officials.

On the Lowndes County Commission calendar:



On Tuesday, January 19, 2016, Lowndes County and the cities of
Valdosta, Hahira, Lake Park, Remerton and Dasher, will meet at the
James H. Rainwater Conference Center for the purpose of identifying
and discussing solutions related to community wide issues. The
meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. and the public is encouraged to
attend.

When: 9AM-10AM Tuesday 19 January 2016

Where: James H. Rainwater Conference Center,
1 Meeting Place,
Valdosta, GA 31601

Contact: County Clerk, Paige Dukes, 229-671-2400

County Chairman Bill Slaughter announced this meeting at

the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 12 January 2016: Continue reading →

Videos: Cemetery again, sewer, billboards, dwelling, parking @ ZBOA 2016-01-05



The Zoning Board of Appeals

last Tuesday
denied
>
the proposed cemetery: it turned out not only neighbors didn’t want it,
many of the family members didn’t, either.
Here is

the LAKE video of the entire meeting, including

the return of the name badges (still undecided), and some new cases
(

sign variance denied in an unusual three-way split vote,
house variance approved,
and

parking approved with conditions),
including

another Valdosta sanitary sewer variance (approved with conditions).
First, ZBOA’s own summary of the votes, then the video.

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia 327

(229) 259-3563

Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator

North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

MEETING RESULTS SUMMARY

January 5, 2016

2:30 p.m. Continue reading →

Valdosta election results and oaths @ VCC 2016-01-07

Tonight,
election results, a homeland security thermal imaging grant, and bench placement on streets.


And a
church food bank,
already heard by the Planning Commission
30 November 2015.

Here’s
the agenda.

AGENDA

REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL

5:30 PM Thursday, January 7, 2016

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL

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Cemetery again, sewer, billboards, dwelling, parking @ ZBOA 2016-01-05

2:30 PM today, the Zoning Board of Appeals


agenda
has a proposed cemetery and name badges back on it, plus some new cases,
including another Valdosta sanitary sewer variance, a billboard variance, and others.


Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Carmella Braswell, Lowndes County Zoning Administrator

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

Matt Martin, Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

AGENDA

January 5, 2016

2:30 p.m.

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