The longest regular item at 4 minutes on this voting Regular Session agenda was 6.b. Accept Hamm Estates Dr. into the County Road Inventory. Longer were two Citizens who spoke at the end about Keep Lowndes-Valdosta Beautiful (KLVB). Here again are the costs found in the agenda sheets for the items, from most expensive down, […]
The longest item of those I videoed (yes, I was late to this Work Session) was 6.f. Deannexation of Ganas Property by Lake Park, which apparently doesn’t cost the county anything. Directly, at least. Maybe even net positive, due to property taxes. Here are the costs found in the agenda sheets for the items, from […]
Bids or negotiations for everything except the Professional Services for Sampling, Monitoring, and Reporting of Impaired Streams, which is on the agenda for Tuesday as a single proposal from an engineering firm. The agenda sheets are on the LAKE website. We do not yet have the full agenda packet. This April 28, 2020, Regular Session […]
Update 2020-04-16: LAKE Notes taken during the conference call. Something good out of a pandemic: the first-ever telephone listen-in for a Lowndes County Commission meeting. With dialin instructions I assume listen-in because there is no Citizens To Be Heard on the agenda. While Madison County, Florida, BOCC, weeks ago had a participatory conference call meeting, […]
Neither of the two Valdosta cases at Monday evening’s Planning Commission Regular Session looks controversial, although you never know. Jon Nijem wants to rezone and then get approval for a Planned Development at 406 & 410 Baytree Road. And Pregnancy Support Clinic of Valdosta wants to rezone for office space at 2203 N. Oak St. […]
Five minutes and 46 seconds Sixteen minutes to vote on the people’s business in the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. Where do they actually discuss things? By far the longest item at three minutes and fourteen seconds was 5a. REZ-2019-04 Southeastern Freight 2120 West Hill Ave., C-H/R-1 To M-2,, and that only because somebody spoke […]
How much will they drive development into places it does not belong this time? GMASS Rural Land Maintenance Contract: The Lowndes County Board of Assessors has approved a contract between the Board of Assessors and GMASS to perform maintenance updates to the Rural Land schedules for the 2019 Digest. They continue encircling Valdosta with county […]
Last month the Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously approved Don Brotherton’s road access variance and by an unusual 3-2-1 vote approved the Valdosta Country Club’s city variance for its clubhouse golf cart barn, with the conditions including planting native plants between the barn and Country Club Road. This 4 April 2017 meeting had a very […]
2:30 PM today: it looks like Don Brotherton bought a piece of land without enough road access, and now he wants a county variance, while Valdosta Country Club wants a city variance for its clubhouse, and city staff don’t agree. This is a very light agenda for the decision-making Zoning Board of Appeals. Courtesy of […]
In the Lowndes County T-SPLOST boondoggle of the day, the county wants $3 million to widen Val Del Road: all of it that’s in the county, plus adding paved shoulders, and at some intersections turn lanes, plus fiddling with drainage. Nothing in the writeup about promoting new development, although we saw in the proposal for […]