Lowndes County offered to charge up to $250 for rezoning materials related to the 2025 rezoning on Coleman Road North for the potential datacenter site across the Withlacoochee River from Langdale Park. Materials such as many other counties put in their board packets and put on their own website.

They actually charged $40.85.

They provided a heap of files on a USB stick, with little indication of which request each file was supposed to address.

Rezoning materials, REZ-2025-11, potential datacenter site, Coleman Road North, Withlacoochee River @ LCC 2025-07-08

This is what I asked for, plus links to what Lowndes County provided in response, as near as I can decipher what they sent.

This is a Georgia Open Records Request (GORA) for materials related to the rezoning application for REZ-2025-11, Langdale Capital Assets, N Coleman Road, as required by Lowndes County Unified Development Code (ULDC).

The rezoning request, evidence of payment, evidence of ownership, and the other items were not in the board packets for the June 30, 2025, Planning Commission meeting, nor for the July 8, 2025, Lowndes County Commission Regular Session, at each of which REZ-2025-11 was heard, at least not as returned in response to open records request by LAKE requesting those board packets.

In this present GORA request I am asking for: Continue reading →