Update 2021-11-08: Videos: Comprehensive Plan Update Public Hearing 2 @ LCC 2021-10-26. All of the speakers at the Comprehensive Plan Stakeholder Meeting were opposed to moving the Suburban Area line farther north on the Character Area Map. They presented cogent reasons, such as they live up there and aren’t going to sell, there are already […]
The agenda sheet for rezoning REZ-2020-20 Ballyntyne (back again from last month) claims no budget impact, but that ignores the many thousands of county tax dollars already spent on Clyattstone Road, as well as followup maintenance of roads, sewer, and water, not to mention School Board expenses for sending buses, as well as Fire Department […]
Update 2020-12-15: Board packet is on the LAKE website. A million and a half dollars, mostly for insurance, on the agenda for the final Lowndes County Commission session of 2020, and that’s not counting the many-years-long ramifications of rezoning for new subdivisions and acquiring right of way for a new road. Rezonings: REZ-2020-17 3833 Inner […]
Applying this morning for Board of Tax Assessors are Mr. Gene Felts and Mrs. Gretchen Quarterman. The Lowndes County Commission will vote tomorrow (Tuesday) at 5:30 PM. That and almost $4 million in water, road, software, and fire items. Cost What $1,681,770.84Grading, Drainage, Base, and Paving of Clyattstone Road and Simpson Lane. $1,417,333.98Clyattstone Water Main […]
On August 1, 2020, Paige Dukes will be the new County Manager, after the 20-year reign of Joe Pritchard. Paige Dukes, County Clerk, Lunch and Learn, 2011-10-13 Chris Herbert, Valdosta Daily Times, 14 July 2020, Dukes named Lowndes County Manager, The vote was a split decision, 3-2, with commissioners Joyce Evans, Clay Griner and Scottie […]
Video has appeared on lowndescounty.com of the May 12, 2020 Regular Session, and the minutes. It is 11:48 long, of which 10:48 was actual business. The video reveals there is a new County Planner, J.D. Dillard. We also learn from the video (but not from the minutes) the extent of the Old US 41 widening. […]
No Lowndes County Commission agenda would be complete without another of these, in the agenda for zero dollars, but will cost taxpayers much more in subdivisions in the future: Approve Purchasing ROW and Drainage Easement for Clyattstone Rd.-Simpson Ln. TSPLOST Paving Project. Clyattstone Road in Lowndes County Tax Assessors map, connecting Old US 41 N […]
Apparently there was no legal public notice and no recording of the April teleconference meeting with the dial-in code changed less than three hours before, with $6,913,575.06 in taxpayers’ money being decided. Photo: Pine Grove Road Collection Center For that Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission, at which everything was approved unanimously except the […]
Update 2020-05-10: Lowndes County, GA, Stream Monitoring and Stormwater Permit 2020-04-28. Update 2020-05-09: Board packet. Update 2020-05-02: Gretchen’s notes on each agenda item. Was this even a public meeting? The Lowndes County Commission approved everything on its agenda yesterday, even though only really perceptive citizens could figure out how to listen to the teleconference. In […]
The longest time, almost 16 minutes, was for Pregnancy Support Clinic of Valdosta at 2203 N. Oak St., followed at 14 minutes by REZ-2020-03 Wetherington Property, Val Del Road RA to PD, with 12 minutes for the Jon Nijem rezoning and Planned Development at 406 & 410 Baytree Road, in a relatively short February meeting […]