Tag Archives: BRAC

Videos: alias for Val Tech Road, Moody, Library, KLVB, DFCS, Construction Board @ LCC 2017-07-25

They actually spent the most time on the

fire pages,
but
the biggest item was

renaming Val Tech Road:
they decided not to do that, rather to designate “a portion” of it as
Wiregrass Technical College Way or something like that.

For two boards,
KLVB
and
DFCS,
they didn’t have an application for one seat,
so they left it until the next meeting.

The meeting lasted more than fifteen minutes, so they’ll probably have
to pay staff overtime!
Below are links to the LAKE video for each item in the
agenda,
for yesterday morning’s Regular Session, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
the LAKE videos of hte previous morning’s Work Session.

Videos: Moody, Library, KLVB, DFCS, Construction Board, renaming Val Tech Road @ LCC 2017-07-24

Below are links to the LAKE video for each item in the
agenda,
for yesterday morning’s Work Session, followed by a LAKE video playlist.

Air Force lobbyists, appointments to four boards, renaming Val Tech Road @ LCC 2017-07-24

The agenda still says 8:30 AM Monday morning for the Work Session,
and they have only half an hour left to change it and still comply with state law.

In case anybody has forgotten Moody AFB is by far the biggest employer in these parts, the county wants

to hire for $36,000 a year a pair of lobbyists to the Air Force:
Parker and Lucy Greene,
“to provide consulting services on behalf of Lowndes County to enhance
relationships with the Air Force and Department of Defence regarding Moody AFB.”


Parker and Lucy Greene

Kari L. Sands (R.I.P.), VDT, 22 June 2007,

Parker Greene honored with award, Continue reading →

Proposed development next to Moody AFB has been withdrawn (REZ-2013-08)

Received in response to an open records request to Lowndes County,
here is the developer’s withdrawal letter,


and correspondence between Lowndes County Zoning and Planning with
Moody AFB confirming that this was indeed

REZ-2013-08 MFH Tract A on Roberts Road that was withdrawn.
It seems the U.S. Air Force would also like to see GLPC minutes online;
that request came from Deputy, Housing Division,
Air Force Civil Engineering Center, located in

San Antonio, Texas..
Also, doesn’t Georgia open meetings law require a summary of
actions taken within a few days of a Planning Commission meeting?
-jsq



Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:56:40 -0400

Subject: MAZ-1

From: Roger Sevigny <rsevigny@alleneng.net>

To: Jason Davenport <jdavenport@lowndescounty.com>,
<bslaughter@lowndescounty.com>

Cc: Mike Fletcher <mfletcher@lowndescounty.com>, Joe Pritchard
<JPritchard@lowndescounty.com>

Gentlemen,

I had no idea of the county anger with MFH LLC. I thought Continue reading →

Rep. Austin Scott (R GA-08) @ VLCoC 2013-01-10




Ron Borders
introduced

Congressman Austin Scott (R GA-08) who

made some remarks
on the front porch at the Chamber of Commerce Thursday 10 January 2013.

Bookended by some formulaic remarks about debt
(without mentioning
that
it’s already mostly solved),
the Congressman noted he is on the Committee on Armed Services.
He said there is no current

BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure Commission),
although one has been asked for.
He said a BRAC wouldn’t do anything for near-term debt, anyway
(but he didn’t say anything about ending the war in Afghanistan
or stopping funding for un-needed weapons systems as ways of saving money).

He said he is the chair of a House Agriculture Subcommitee
(Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture).
He said he was for research, for the agricultural extension,
and for agricultural exports.

Here’s

the WCTV news report, with responses by Gretchen Quarterman,
Chair of the Lowndes County Democratic Party (LCDP).

Here’s

a video playlist:

Continue reading →

Chamber of Commerce vs. County Commission Re: Moody AFB @ LCC 2012-12-11

Received today (yes, I’m a Chamber member). -jsq

From: “Tim Jones, Chairman of the Board ” <chamber@valdostachamber.com>

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:47:01 -0500 (EST)

Subject: Alert: Chamber needs your help to protect Moody!

Dear Chamber Member,

Our Chamber recognizes the $448 million economic impact Moody Air
Force Base has on our regional economy each year. We meet with Air
Force officials at the Pentagon annually and ask them, “What else
can our community do to protect MAFB from the next BRAC?” The
answer, every year: prevent encroachment, and the best way to do
that is by protecting the Military Activity Zone (MAZ).

Today

(Tuesday, Dec. 11) at the Lowndes County Board of
Commissioners meeting there are two agenda items that could put
Moody at risk.



Spot zoning for a proposed densely settled subdivision in the MAZ
is an invitation to other developments and inherently sets a precedent.
It’s a very slippery slope. How will the County tell the next one
“no”?

The second agenda item would

change the zoning ordinance
to allow even more densely settled neighborhoods in the MAZ.

One of the reasons we’ve been able to keep MAFB here

for more than
70 years is because MAFB can be utilized for a number of types of
missions, largely because of the protected activity zone. Both
agenda items, if passed, could increase encroachment into the MAZ
and could very well limit MAFB’s future mission possibilities.

Another Georgia community (Warner Robins)

is actually using taxpayer dollars
to buy back residential properties in

their military activity zones
as a result of their failure to prevent encroachment.

The Planning Commission voted unanimously to deny this subdivision,
and

to deny the proposed changes to the MAZ that would allow more
dense residential development. The County Commission should vote to
deny, too.

The

Chamber’s GAC Executive Committee voted unanimously to oppose
actions that allow encroachment and weaken the MAZ. The Chamber
encourages our members to contact our County Commission members to
let them know how you feel about protecting MAFB. The Chamber
encourages our members to attend the County Commission meeting at
the Dec. 11 meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the Administation Building.

Please respond to this email to share your thoughts.

Sincerely,

Tim Jones, Chairman of the Board

Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce



I added the links above.
All that Tim Jones said,
plus Crawford Powell’s discovery that the proposed subdivision

would be a fire code violation,
plus

according to Forbes Valdosta MSA housing prices are still dropping,
so

do we even need any more housing, anyway?

-jsq