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Vacant seat Behavioral Health Board, Rezoning also on GLPC Monday, road abandonment, land exchange, and flood map project @ LCC 2016-07-25

Public hearings for the
event center rezoning
and the
Abandonment of a Portion of Worthington Triangle are
on the

agenda


for the Monday morning Work Session and for voting
in the Tuesday evening Regular Session.
That rezoning is also (back) on
Planning Commission agenda
for Monday evening.

And back on the

County Commission agenda
is the
Withlacoochee River Flood Inundation Map Project;
see
LAKE videos from the previous County Commission meetings,
and

a modest suggestion.

Also in water, another
LAS Pump Motor Repair
and a
Foxborough Pressure Reducing Valve/Vault.
It was actually an LAS pump control panel
last month.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JULY 25, 2016, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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Abandoning part of Bethany Road contentious and enlightening @ LCC



Quite a few people showed up at the Lowndes County Commission
public hearing about abandoning part of Bethany Road, speaking pro and con.
We learned many interesting reasons for abandoning that road,
which would apply to many dirt and maybe paved roads in the county,
many of which are on the county’s paving list.
More about that and an interesting view of the press in later posts.
First, here’s what we’re talking about.

12 December 2011 Work Session

Here are the

minutes:

Abandonment of a Portion of Bethany Road,
County Engineer, Mike Fletcher, presented a request by citizens for the
abandonment of a portion of Bethany Road. Mr. Fletcher explained that
the Commission was being asked to make an initial determination that
either the section of the county road system has been ceased to be used
by the public to the extent that no substantial purpose is served by it,
or that its removal from the county road system is otherwise in the best
public interest. Mr. Fletcher added that once the initial determination
was made, staff would move forward with the appropriate advertising of
a public hearing at which time the Commission could make a final decision.



Here’s

video
in which County Engineer Mike Fletcher said the part of Bethany Road
to be abandoned runs from Bethany Drive down through the Stith
and Turner family properties towards Old US 41 North
as far as the Rykard property,
and that all residents would still have access out to other roads.
County Manager Joe Pritchard noted that

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