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Videos: Church, brokerage, signage, substation, agriculture @ GLPC 2014-10-27



Last seen at ZBOA 2013-03-05 about a sign,
Macedonia First Baptist Church

now wants to expand in a residential neighborhood.
One applicant wants to rezone

from R-10 to Estate Agriculture.
All that and more two weeks ago at the Planning Commission.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC)

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue


Monday, October 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Continue reading →

Pipeline, road repair, Bailey, water, and Commercial Tax Schedules @ LCC 2014-10-28



They finally made a decision onG

the Bailey rezoning:
the one the applicant liked least.
They accepted

the Creekwood Subdivision detention ponds;
and the

Glen Laurel infrastructure;
will all that be maintained any better than the one at Hamilton Circle?
Dr. Michael Noll

spoke for WACE against the Sabal Trail fracked methane pipeline.

Agenda item

6.i. is changed in the county’s

online agenda from Rural to Commercial without the agenda being
marked as amended.

See
agenda,
the LAKE videos of the previous morning’s Work Session,
and

the board packet obtained via open records request by LAKE and scanned and posted on the LAKE website.
Here are videos of events as they transpired, followed by a video playlist.

Continue reading →

Videos: Existing Industry Spotlight @ VLCIA 2014-10-21


They’re hiring an

Existing Industry Coordinator to start in October or November.
They granted

an easement on Madison Highway to Valdosta for a rechlorination booster station.

No citizens spoke at the 21 October 2014 Valdosta-Lowndes County Development Authority meeting.
Nobody there but Greg Justice of Regal Marine
(presented a framed copy of

the VDT article about his company),
VDT reporter Stuart Taylor (here’s his report),
and Gretchen (who took these videos).
Roy Copeland wanted to know about

numbers of new jobs and reporting to the community.

Here’s the
agenda,
and below are the videos of events as they transpired.

Continue reading →

Videos: Bailey Gung Scintilla Land @ GLPC 2014-09-29



Here’s the

agenda,
and below are the videos as events transpired,
of the 29 September 2014 Regular Session of the Greater Lowndes
Planning Commission (GLPC). Continue reading →

A Hazardous Sabal Trail to LNG Export

Here are


the slides for the talk I gave at the
Alabama Sierra Club Retreat 1 November 2014.

The outline, with links to supporting evidence:

Afterwards, somebody asked me if there was a study on LNG exports
driving up domestic natural gas prices.
Turns out there is, requested by LNG-export-authorizing
Office of Fossil Energy from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

EIA’s summary of 29 October 2014: Continue reading →

Board Packet @ LCC 2014-10-27



Surprisingly, when asked for this packet Monday morning,
the County Clerk agreed to provide it later that same day, and did.
However, she delivered it on paper.
Processing time for that interleaved with other tasks took LAKE
until now.
Here is the

board packet
for the
27 October 2014 Regular Session
of the Lowndes County Commission.
It answers many questions that the public board meeting left hanging,
such as
what land does the county plant to acquire for that booster pump.
If the county would put these board packets on their own website
before their meetings, the citizens who pay their salaries
would be able to see what they were talking about.

-jsq

Sabal Trail pipeline disruptive for what gain? –Valdosta Today

The same Monday that
the Dougherty County Commission passed a resolution against the Sabal Trail pipeline,


Valdosta Today editorialized against it.

S.E. (Chip) Harp, Valdosta Today Editor, 27 October 2014,

Proposed Pipeline will Disrupt south Georgia, but for What Gain?,

SASSER — The proposed (and likely) Sabal Trail natural gas
pipeline will impact most residents in south Georgia, bringing
additional natural gas supplies to Florida “while increasing
the diversity and reliability of the region’s energy-delivery system
and positively impacting the economy in the Southeast, specifically
Alabama, Georgia and Florida”, per Sabal Trail reports.

However, as has been seen already, it will also have a negative
impact on many area businesses, landowners and residents, especially
agricultural-based businesses. One of those affected is produce and Continue reading →

Outside corporation trumps Valdosta citizens about historical Nichols house? –Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23

Received

27 October 2014
about

Whose rights come first? –Tim Carroll. -jsq

So because the owner of the property, which appeared to be a


national property owning corporation for the fraternity’s local
chapters, couldn’t, or more likely, didn’t want to see the cultural
and architectural significance of the Nichols’ House, and merely
wanted to unload the property as quick as possible, their property
rights trump all other citizens of Valdosta in regards to our
historical/cultural history and what we may wish to preserve? Do
private entities, which may not even live here, have carte blanche
to run roughshod and do whatever they please in our city
irregardless of the interests of the citizens that do?

If you think I have a “lack of true understanding Continue reading →

Videos: Emergency road repair, grandfathered business, water, and Rural Land Agricultural Improvement Schedules @ LCC 2014-10-27


More detail and issues with

Bailey REZ-2014-16
after
much discussion last time.
Almost ten minutes on

6a. Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention.
Numerous things incomplete or just FYI such as drug seizures in the

financial report, none of which the citizens could see.
This was in the Work Session Monday morning.
They vote Tuesday 5:30 PM in the Regular Session.



They

actually named the multiple bids for a water item,
unlike the
single-source price-not-quoted pump replacement last time.
And they’re buying some property (at some place unnamed)

for a booster pump.

The

Rural Land Agricultural Improvement Schedules
was actually for Commercial land.
We learned why

Shiloh Road needs emergency repairs.
Nothing about that on

the new county Lowndes411 twitter account,
and the county still doesn’t publish its own board packets.

I can understand why the Commission needs to approve

a juvenile justice grant,
a

GEFA loan application,
to

accept quit claim deeds for a subdivision’s detention ponds,
and to

accept infrastructure for a subdivision, not to mention

a CDBG agreement.
But to

replace batteries in a UPS?

See

the agenda.
Here are links to the videos of the items as they transpired this morning. Continue reading →

Whose rights come first? –Tim Carroll @ VCC 2014-10-23

Received 25 October 2014 on

Too bad about the Nichols House –Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23. -jsq



I realize many may think none on council heard what Dr. Willis had
to say, but that was not the case. What I think was missed by many
in the audience was the fact that the owner of this property was not
the applicant of this request, but was adamantly opposed to it. Not
only did they have an offer on the table to sell, but it was pending
the outcome of the vote regarding historic designation. To take away
the rights of a property owner at the request of another is a very
tricky thing. Whose rights come first? This was a tough decision in
and unto itself. To suggest that only the monetary value of the
property for taxation purposes drove the decision demonstrates a
lack of true understanding of the all the pertinent facts of this
case.

-Tim Carroll



I think

the applicant’s frat alumnus attorney speaking for 15 minutes against probably tipped off most people about that first point. -jsq