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.

Second longest at more than five minutes was Continue reading →

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.
See also Continue reading →

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.

Here are links to Continue reading →

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”,
as County Zoner Carmella Braswell said,
they Continue reading →

ZBOA Packet @ ZBOA 2017-06-06

[Zoning Location Map]
The board packet for today’s Zoning Board of Appeals meeting is
on the LAKE website, thanks to ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.

See also in a previous blog post the
“>text version of the agenda.

Two of these items,

VAR-2017-06
and

VAR-2017-07,
were tabled from the May ZBOA meeting.

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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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Video: Budget Overview Summary Session @ LCC Budget 2017-05-22

Update 2017-06-26: the rest of the LAKE videos of this meeting. They’re discussing this budget this morning and voting on it Tuesday 27 June 2017.



“You have the packets that have been provided for you in regards budget,”,
said County Chairman Bill Slaughter, but the taxpayers do not have that packet
for this meeting that was not on the county calendar until this morning, had no agenda, and only popped up

online also that same yesterday morning of this Budget Work Session.

This is the summary given by Continue reading →

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.