Tag Archives: 27 August 2012

Changes to Lowndes County’s Unified Land Development Code (ULDC) @ GLPC 2012-08-27

Did you know
last night’s Planning Commission meeting included


a public hearing about changes to the county’s
Unified Land Development Code (ULDC)
related to land disturbances and water quality?
You wouldn’t have found out about that in the agenda,
because

it wasn’t posted anywhere you’d be likely to see it.
(Where does GLPC post the one physical copy of the agenda required by law,
anyway?)


Supposedly it was advertised in the Valdosta Daily Times,
but a search

of Public Notices in Statewide Database of Public Notices from Georgia’s Legal Organ Newspapers
for 1 June 2012 through 27 August 2012 finds nothing.



Here’s what

the agenda item for the 27 August 2012 GLPC meeting
(that we only know about because Gretchen went to that GLPC meeting
and asked County Planner Jason Davenport)
says:

From a procedural standpoint the amendment has been advertised in
the Valdosta Daily Times to fulfill legal requirements. Beyond
legal requirements staff has plans to post this agenda
item and draft ULDC on the Lowndes County Website at
http://www.lowndescounty.com/content.asp?pid=23&id=224. Regarding
staff review of the amendments, the TRC recommended for their approval
at their 08/16 regular meeting.

If you’d happened to look several levels deep on the Lowndes County website
you would have found

that undated announcement:

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Planning Commission meets tonight: no agenda @ GLPC 2012-08-27

This month LAKE didn’t get an agenda from GLPC, but they are meeting
tonight at 5:30 PM.
According to

the City of Valdosta’s calendar,

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Date: 7/30/2012 5:30 PM



Location:

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 W. Savannah Avenue

Valdosta, Georgia 31601



The

Lowndes County Commission’s calendar
does not list this meeting;
it doesn’t list any Planning Commission meetings.
The county website also has no description of GLPC that I can find.
It does get a mention three levels deep, under

Planning.

Valdosta’s

description page for GLPC has the information appended below.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Purpose:
The mission of the Greater Lowndes
Planning Commission (GLPC) is to look beyond short-term solutions in
planning for the future of the Greater Lowndes community; to improve the
public health, safety, convenience and welfare; and to provide for the
social, economic and physical development of communities on a sound and
orderly basis, within a governmental framework and economic environment
which fosters constructive growth and efficient administration.

Members:

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Lowndes County Commission meetings cancelled @ LCC 2012-08-27

Where and when did the preliminary information or discussion happen?
And among whom?
According to
the county's website:

Lowndes County Work & Regular Session Meetings Cancelled (8/28/2012)



Due to lack of agenda items requiring additional information or
discussion, the Lowndes County Work and Regular Session meetings for
August 27-28, 2012, have been cancelled. For more information please
call County Clerk, Paige Dukes, at 229-671-2400.



According to

Georgia's new sunshine law modifications,
as explained

by VLCIA's attorney in an open meeting,
open meetings now include any time a quorum discusses business,
even if there was no scheduled meeting.

And if you wanted to address the Commission about a matter
of interest to the public?
Not this week.

The scheduled next meetings on
their calendar are
a Work Session on Monday 10 September 2012
and a Regular Session on Tuesday 11 September 2012.

-jsq