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Another October LAKE meeting Tuesday 22 October 2013



Pipeline and
local governance: Water (sinkholes, aquifer recharge,
runoff,
drinking water, and wastewater), trash (how about that Exclusive Franchise!),
and money (no-bid contracts and plus SPLOST VII).
If you want to help, we have a little list of tasks you can do.
Why another meeting in October?
The first one was at a time when many of the regulars couldn’t come, so here’s one for them.


What: Another October LAKE Meeting
When: 6:15PM Tuesday

after the

Lowndes County Commission meeting

7 October 2013
Where:


Michael’s Deli

1307 N Ashley St.

Valdosta, GA 31601

If you're on Facebook,
please Like the

LAKE facebook page.
You can sign up for

the meeting event there,
Or just come as you are.

-jsq

October LAKE meeting Monday 7 October 2013



Different day (Monday) and time (4PM), and some new developments, also adding that

natural gas pipeline to the
usual agenda of local governance: Water (sinkholes, aquifer recharge,
runoff,
drinking water, and wastewater), trash (how about that Exclusive Franchise!),
and money (no-bid contracts and plus SPLOST VII).
If you want to help, we have a little list of tasks you can do.

If you're on Facebook,
please Like the

LAKE facebook page.
You can sign up for

the meeting event there,
Or just come as you are.


Pipeline points with streets

What: Monthly LAKE Meeting
When: 4PM Monday

7 October 2013
Where:


Michael’s Deli

1307 N Ashley St.

Valdosta, GA 31601

-jsq

Videos: ZBOA approved UHS Pruitt variance at Two Mile Branch on Lee Street @ ZBOA 2013-09-10



The Zoning Board of Appeals approved

a variance on stream buffers for the medical expansion across
Two Mile Branch, as promised

at the Planning Commission
and

Valdosta City Council.

Here’s

the agenda with a few links and notes.

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

AGENDA

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

2:30 p.m.

  1. Call to Order

CITY OF VALDOSTA CASES:



  1. APP-2013-09 – RREMC Restaurants LLC     (Denny’s; 1328 N St Augustine Road)


    Variance to LDR Section 214-7 as it pertains to exterior building materials

    Approved unanimously, plus

    some after-discussion about sheet metal    .





  2. APP-2013-10 — UHS-Pruitt Corporation     (Parkwood Developmental Center; 1501 N Lee St.)


    Variance to LDR Section 214-1 Table 2 as it pertains to rear yard setbacks in O-P Zoning and to LDR Section 310-112(A)(1) as it pertains to stream buffers

    Approved with two dissenting votes,

    by Nancy Hobby and Gretchen Quarterman    .

OTHER BUSINESS:

Continue reading →

Videos: SPLOST VII Resolution, child proclamation, and appointment @ LCC 2013-09-10



They voted to put the

SPLOST VII Resolution on the ballot in November,

“to reimpose the tax”, with not even a hint of those

town halls that never happened.
They reappointed

Mac McCall to ZBOA.
The Proclamation
was for a boy who called 911 to help an old neighbor
who was trapped under a refrigerator
(nope, not for

South Georgia Pride).
And we learned that nobody has to fear arrest or threat
and everybody can speak their mind
in the Commission chambers; nevermind recent history to the contrary.

Here’s

the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes.
See also

videos of the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

Continue reading →

Gaines Lane into county road system? Little chance for ordinary citizens @ LCC 2013-09-10



Citizen Anita L. Armstrong wants help with Gaines Lane,
but it’s a private road, and it would have to be paved to state
highway standards to get accepted into the county’s road system.
She spoke at

the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 10 September 2013.

I come before you again asking to see if we can get some help with our road.
It is so bad and we don’t have the money.
If we could get just a little help, maybe we could get it kind of
straightened out so we could get in and out.
The last bad weather that we had, we had to be pulled out of the road
for at least five times.
And each time that we pulled out, we have to pay someone to do it….
And we are asking your help.

Her problem is that Gaines Lane is a private road, not county maintained.
To get it into the county road system, right of way would have to be
donated to the county, because some years ago the county made a policy
(try to find it in writing) that it would no longer pay for rights of way.
Some of the landowners on Gaines Road have not agreed to donate.
And even if they do, the county also has a policy (try to find that one
in writing, while you’re at it) that it only accepts roads that are
up to county standards, which means already paved to state highway standards.
So basically unless you’re a developer, you’re not going to get a road
into the county road system.

Ms. Armstrong spoke in the previous session, 13 August 2013, about

garbage trucks damaging her road.

A Bess Armstrong
11 May 2010

according to the minutes:

Bess Armstrong, Gaines Lane, thanked the Commission for their help in
assisting with road improvements made on Gaines Lane. Mr. Armstrong
added that he needed some guidance on how to maintain the road in the
future. Chairman Paulk stated that the credit should be given to Reames
Construction, since the county was unable to work on the private road.

There was extensive discussion in the 23 February 2010 meeting,

according to the minutes: Continue reading →

Visible Option 3 for sewer for middle school @ LCC 2013-09-10



In a surprise move, Commissioner Crawford Powell insisted
on showing the audience what the Commission was voting on
regarding extending sewer service for the Lowndes County Board of Education,
at

the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 10 September 2013.

8.b. Sewer Service Requested for Lowndes County Board of Education

Utilities Manager Mike Allen said LCBOE wants sewer service for
Lake Park Elementary to help out their failing septic tank;
he recommended Option 3.

Commissioner Crawford Powell asked for Option 3 to be displayed
or read.
IT Director
Aaron Kostyu noted that if there was a copy it could be projected.
Allen moseyed over to the table by the podium with a copy, pictured here,
with transcript below.


Option 3) Direct county attorney to draft two documents: Continue reading →

Decently and in order? Prayers do not match Commission behavior @ LCC 2013-09-10



The invocation didn’t match what the Commission did
at

the Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 10 September 2013,
or at many another session, for that matter.

The invocation included this:

…we can gather here and not have to face the fear arrest or threat.
That we can express our opinions openly.


I guess Minister Commissioner John Page hasn’t heard of

Ashley Paulk’s Greatest Hits
which include

a not-so-veiled threat of arrest right there in that
same chamber Continue reading →

ZBOA considers UHS Pruitt variance at Two Mile Branch on Lee Street @ ZBOA 2013-09-10

Right about now the Zoning Board of Appeals is considering
a variance on stream buffers for the medical expansion across


Two Mile Branch, as promised

at the Planning Commission
and

Valdosta City Council.
It

never flooded there before, right?
Nevermind that

flood control measures encourage settling too close and provoke severe flooding events
and just yesterday I heard people complaining about water running over
Lee Street just downstream from the subject location.
How will adding more impervious cover right next to the creek help that flooding?

Here’s

the agenda.

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

AGENDA

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

2:30 p.m.

  1. Call to Order

CITY OF VALDOSTA CASES:


  1. APP-2013-09 – RREMC Restaurants LLC (Denny’s; 1328 N St Augustine Road)


    Variance to LDR Section 214-7 as it pertains to exterior building materials


  2. APP-2013-10 — UHS-Pruitt Corporation (Parkwood Developmental Center; 1501 N Lee St.)


    Variance to LDR Section 214-1 Table 2 as it pertains to rear yard setbacks in O-P Zoning and to LDR Section 310-112(A)(1) as it pertains to stream buffers

OTHER BUSINESS:

  1. Attendance Policy

  2. Approval of Minutes:

    • August 6, 2013

    • July 9, 2013 (revised to correct Case # scriveners errors)
  3. Adjournment

-jsq

September LAKE meeting Tuesday 10 September 2013



Same agenda as usual, local governance: Water (sinkholes, aquifer recharge,
runoff,
drinking water, and wastewater), trash (how about that Exclusive Franchise!),
and money (no-bid contracts and plus SPLOST VII).
If you want to help, we have a little list of tasks you can do.

What: Monthly LAKE Meeting
When: about 6:30PM Tuesday

(after the County Commission meeting)

10 September 2013
Where:


Michael’s Deli

1307 N Ashley St.

Valdosta, GA 31601

If you're on Facebook,
please Like the

LAKE facebook page.
You can sign up for

the meeting event there,
Or just come as you are.

-jsq