Videos: Senior living, pool, Hahira food trucks @ GLPC 2018-04-30

Yes, it was food trucks Hahira wants

to change in its Zoning Ordinance,
and that was the long item, at 42 minutes in Monday’s Planning Commission
meeting.
Neighbors Barry Robinson and Gretchen Quarterman spoke about it at the
Planning Commission,
as did the food truck owner,
and I bet on all of them being at the
Hahira City Council tonight, especially given that the Planning Commission recommendation was not favorable.


The Planning Commission spent less than 18 minutes on the

two rezonings
for

a senior living residential housing complex in Valdosta.
The request for

a Planned Development on Gornto Road took about as long.

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Signs, frontage, parking, recreation, setbacks, shops, homes @ ZBOA 2018-05-05

Six variances in Lowndes County and a Valdosta LDR change,
on

the ZBOA agenda
for today.


One page, Agenda

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Senior living, pool, food trucks @ GLPC 2018-04-30

Could it be food trucks Hahira wants

to change in its Zoning Ordinance?
In Valdosta,
a request for

a Planned Development on Gornto Road,
and

two rezonings
for

a senior living residential housing complex which would
have access on Ashley Street, Emory Street, and University Drive,
based around the site of China Garden.


China Garden, Ashley, Emory, and University

Map:
Lowndes County Tax Assessors.

Red outline of affected parcels: drawn by John S. Quarterman for LAKE.

All on

the agenda
for 5:30 PM tonight at the Planning Commission.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


Lowndes County


City of Valdosta


City of Dasher


City of Hahira


City of Lake Park



REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA



Monday, April 30, 2018 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
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Videos: No Opioid No Probation Military Utility @ LCC 2018-04-24

They would have managed less than four minutes,
even with

chatting with Leadership Lowndes in the audience,
including 45 seconds on the only substantial
agenda item,

6 a. Grant Of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons
(aka Moody Family Housing).


2013-07-29 GLPC Packet-007 REZ-2013-09 Moody Family Housing


2013-07-29 GLPC Packet-007 REZ-2013-09 Moody Family Housing

Note the big sinkhole in Phase 2.

But

citizen Jacinta Howell talked about traffic safety.
Let’s remember the immortal words of

former Chairman Ashley Paulk
during a rezoning near Bemiss Road:

I’m not going to argue Bemiss Highway, it’s not a pertinent fact.

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Nuke downtimes, decade and year 2018-04-29

Here’s graphic evidence of the unreliability of nuclear power.

Recent 12 months, Southern Nuclear

See for yourself on

LAKE Nuclear Power Status,
which daily draws graphs from Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) data.


Recent 12 months, Southern Nuclear

These examples are for reactors run by Southern Nuclear,
which is the nuclear unit of Southern Company, which has only six units operational.
About every other month
one or another of them is down. Continue reading →

Videos: Opioid Vaginal Mesh, Military Utility, No Probation @ LCC 2018-04-23

Yesterday morning Chairman Bill Slaughter

looked straight at the LAKE video camera and said:
“We’ll have a record-setting short meeting tomorrow, with one agenda item.”
Then he chuckled.



The Work Session was 17 minutes and 35 seconds, because of 12 minutes on the

Special Presentation by Andrew Hill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session).

The longest other item was 3 minutes on

6 b. Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution,
which wasn’t ready yet, and is what the Chairman removed from the agenda for tonight.

Indeed it didn’t take five minutes, not even half a minute, for them not to discuss

6 a. Grant Of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons.

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Opioid Military Utility Probation @ LCC 2018-04-23

Maybe 15 minutes because of the
Special Presentation by Andrew Hill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session).

It won’t take them five minutes to discuss

a water and sewer easement
for the sinkhole-prone recently-renamed

Moody Family Housing Housing,
now called Azalea Commons,
which is
in a recharge zone for the Floridan Aquifer from which we all drink.
That subdivision only has water and sewer lines running by it up Val Del Road
because
the county ran those lines to enable
the Nelson Hill subdivision,
for which the county permitted razing wetlands, and
which then mysteriously

got staff variances to avoid building condominiums,
mixed elevations, or becoming a gated community.


WRPDO Site Map, Moody Family Housing, REZ-2013-09


WRPDO Site Map, Moody Family Housing, REZ-2013-09.

It’s unlikely to take longer for them to discuss the
Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution.

Here’s

the agenda.
Gretchen is on her way there with the LAKE video camera.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 2018, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

  1. Call to Order

  2. Invocation

  3. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag

  4. Special Presentation by Andrew Hill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session)

  5. Minutes for Approval

    1. Work Session- April 9, 2018

    2. Regular Session- April 10, 2018
  6. For Consideration

    1. Grant Of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons

      ACC Group Housing, LLC desires to Grant Lowndes county an easement and right of way to provide access to service and maintain the water and sewer lines serving the Azalea Commons residential area.

      Documents:Grant of Easement for Utility Right of Way Moody-Azalea Commons.pdf

    2. Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution

      Approval of probation plan and resolution

      Documents:Lowndes County Government Probation Plan and Resolution.pdf

  7. Reports – County Manager

  8. Citizens Wishing to be Heard-Please State Your Name and Address

  9. Adjournment

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Videos: Proclamations, Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-10



The two longest items were proclamations, for the

Teen Explosion Youth Action Group
and for

Telecommunications Week.
Everything else sailed through.

Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See previous post
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Still inconsistent, but has speed humps: Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan 2018

The little-known
Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan
drives development in Lowndes County.
With no public notice and no public hearing.
the Commissioners voted on it Tuesday, April 10, 2018.
Probably you only heard that would happen if you looked at their
agenda late last week,
or you happened to read
what I wrote about it Monday.


Lowndes County Road Map

Obtained through open records request, it’s on

the LAKE website now.

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Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-09

You can’t see the
Special Presentation by Attorney Haynes Studstill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session)
because Gretchen was not there with the LAKE video camera yesterday morning,
and

the agenda
says it’s only in the Work Session.
Lowndes County does video its own County Commission meetings,
but they haven’t posted the video of that yet.
Meanwhile, the City of Valdosta did

decide to join a lawsuit against big pharma about opioid addiction.
Another county legal item for tonight is
FY2019 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program Request for Proposals (RFP).

They’re doing an
Update to the Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan, which is for:


Road Map, Maps

Road Map,

2009 Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan.

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners
first adopted the Thoroughfare Plan in 1983. Since then, the
Thoroughfare Plan has been revised numerous times Continue reading →