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Videos: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Update 2024-04-10:
Packet: Hospital Authority appointment, 6 rezonings, paving and resurfacing, subdivision infrastructure, probationers @ LCC 2024-05-13.

For an hour and 42 minutes the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
discussed and recommended for or against eight rezoning cases.

Two Lowndes County Commissioners attended:
Scottie Orenstein and Joyce Evans.
The Lowndes County Commission will hear these cases this week,
or so we assume, since they have no agenda posted yet.

At the Planning Commission, nobody spoke against most of the cases on the agenda, and the Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of those,
sometimes with conditions.

Only two cases were very slightly controversial.


[Collage @ LCC 29 April 2024]

Collage @ LCC 29 April 2024

Clint Joyner said, “I’m telling you, Continue reading →

Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Update 2024-05-10:
Videos: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29.

The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) will be busy this evening,
maybe with a packed audience,
to review eight rezoning cases.


[Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29]

Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Considering waterways, these cases seem unremarkable.

The Lake Park

W. Marion Ave. rezoning is near Long Pond, but not on it.

The
Valdosta
Williams Street rezoning apparently drains into One Mile Branch, which goes into Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River, but is not very near that creek.

The
Skipper Bridge Road rezoning near Franklinville Road
is uphill from the Withlacoochee River, but not near to it.
This is the one case with no utilities, but it is for a single house.

The
River Road rezoning backs up onto Pebble Creek, which runs into Crawford Branch into the Withlacoochee River,
but that area is recognized as wetlands on the plat, with a detention pond.

The
Dasher Grove Road and Val Del Road rezoning
includes two creeks that run into Sermons Branch, into the Withlacoochee River, but at least they are recognized as wetlands and avoided in the conceptual plan.

The
Old US 41 rezoning is near Sermons Branch, which runs into the Withlacoochee River.

The
Whitewater Road rezoning
is near creeks that end up in the Withlacoochee River.

The
Carter Lane rezoning is at the top of
Caney Branch, which runs into Enoch Creek, the Alapahoochee River, and the Alapaha River.

Here is the

agenda.

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is
on the LAKE website.


Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~

~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~

Monday, April 22, 2024 5:30 P.M. Work Session

Monday, April 29, 2024 5:30 P.M. Regular Session

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

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Videos: One Lowndes County case, solar fence, Lake Park, GA @ ZBOA 2019-08-06

Nancy Hobby recused herself before the
lengthy discussion of the one

ZBOA case for August 2019, which was actually in Lowndes County,

VAR-2019-09 — Tycor Farms (6734 Georgia Highway 376, Lake Park) Request for a variance….
or

6530 GA 376,
according to a followup letter from the applicant’s representative.

[Notice Sign]

Photo: Gretchen Quarterman, Notice Sign

There was still nothing about the wetlands around the place, leading to
Enoch Creek, then into the Alapahoochee River,
into the Alapaha, the Suwannee, and on to the Gulf.

[Alapaha River Water Trail Map]

Map: John S. Quarterman, from WWALS Alapaha River Water Trail Map.

However, the likely wetlands seem to be along the eastern edge of the cleared area,
so one can guess the solar panels are not going there.

[Lowndes County Tax Assessor]

Map: Lowndes County Tax Assessor, Parcel 0222 002, Tycor Farms LLC, 6530 GA HWY 376, Lake Park, GA 31636.

Nobody from the audience spoke for or against the application.
The result was: Continue reading →

One Valdosta Lowndes County case, solar fence, Lake Park, GA @ ZBOA 2019-08-06

Update 2019-09-24:
LAKE videos.

Only one case on the

ZBOA agenda today:

VAR-2019-09 — Tycor Farms (6734 Georgia Highway 376, Lake Park) Request for a variance….

[Aerial photograph with buffers marked]

Aerial photograph with buffers marked

Oops, it’s not really at that address; that’s a neighbor’s house.
Also, the Technical Review Committee (TRC)
changed from recommending denial due to no hardship
to recommending
approval.

Actually it’s at 6530 GA 376,
according to a followup letter from the applicant’s representative.

And it’s pretty obvious from the applicant’s aerial map that it’s
next to a creek,
which as it happens runs into Enoch Creek, then into the Alapahoochee River,
into the Alapaha, the Suwannee, and on to the Gulf.
Yet I don’t see a word about wetlands in the application.

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Valdosta Planning and Zoning Office

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Lowndes County Zoning Office

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

August 6, 2019

2:30 p.m. Continue reading →