The Valdosta rezonings will be heard by the Valdosta Mayor and Council at their Work Session this evening at 5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 5, 2024, and decided at their Regular Session Thursday evening. At least this time the subdivisions are mostly next to other subdivisions. The Planning Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of VA-2024-02 on Cherry […]
Update 2024-03-05: Videos: Valdosta subdivisions, Lowndes County subdivisions and manufacturing @ GLPC 2024-02-26. Subdivisions everywhere. At least this time mostly next to other subdivisions. Valdosta and Lowndes County cases @ GLPC 2024-02-26 The GLPC board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is on the LAKE website. Here is the agenda: Greater […]
Update 2023-01-28: Videos: Dollar General Defeated, VLDA appointment, subdivision infrastructure, VOCA, server blades @ LCC Regular 2023-01-24. The second-longest item at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session this morning was the proposed rezoning for a Dollar General at GA 122 and Skipper Bridge Road, slightly uphill from the Withlacoochee River. They vote tonight at 5:30 […]
The Lowndes County Commission continues to pretend that accepting streets for a subdivision won’t cost taxpayers anything in future maintenance, nor previously in running water and sewer there. Back in October 2019, when the county accepted infrastructure for Phase V, County Engineer Mike Fletcher said that was “the last phase of Grove Pointe”. Yet here […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]