Tag Archives: GA 133

Videos: 2 presentations, 4 CWTBH, Appointment Board of Health, correct Tax Assessor, Qualifying Fees, grants, road widening and paving, Lakes Blvd Water Meter Relocation @ LCC Regular 2026-01-12

They tabled (again)

9.l. Abandonment of Grice Road,
this time to no definite date,
at the Monday evening Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.


Dr. Lucy Greene is handing over her work as Moody Support.
At 23 minutes, that was by far the longest item.

Four citizens spoke at the end.


[Collage @ LCC Regular Session, 12 January 2026]

Collage @ LCC Regular Session, 12 January 2026

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the Continue reading →

Videos: 3 presentations, Appointment Board of Health, correct Tax Assessor, Qualifying Fees, grants, road widening and paving, Lakes Blvd Water Meter Relocation @ LCC Work 2026-01-02

Update 2025-01-15:
Videos: 2 presentations, 4 CWTBH, Appointment Board of Health, correct Tax Assessor, Qualifying Fees, grants, road widening and paving, Lakes Blvd Water Meter Relocation @ LCC Regular 2026-01-12.

A rare sight at the Monday morning Work Session:
the Lowndes County Chairman and the Valdosta Mayor jointly
reading a Proclamation of I love Public Schools Day.

They discussed tabling (again)

9.l. Abandonment of Grice Road
trying to avoid making any landlocked lots and other concerns about neighboring lots.


[Collage @ LCC Work Session, 12 January 2026]

Collage @ LCC Work Session, 12 January 2026


Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
with a few notes by Gretchen Quarterman,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.

See also the

agenda and the board packet,
received in response to a LAKE open records request.

If they put it on their own website, lowndescounty.com,
under
Agenda Center,
nobody would have to file an open records request and county staff
wouldn’t have to spend time sending out packets.

Here is the LAKE video playlist:


https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLshUv86fYkiHack-3koY45nFAwmkCKyHM&si=aVZFV6sV0MjMHiOz

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Packet: 3 presentations, Appointment Board of Health, correct Tax Assessor, Qualifying Fees, grants, road widening and paving, Lakes Blvd Water Meter Relocation @ LCC 2026-01-12

Update 2025-01-14:
Videos: 3 presentations, Appointment Board of Health, correct Tax Assessor, Qualifying Fees, grants, road widening and paving, Lakes Blvd Water Meter Relocation @ LCC Work 2026-01-12.

Both Work Session and Regular Session are today, Monday, January 12, 2026,
for the Lowndes County Commission.
I don’t know why.

They didn’t do the appointment right in December for Felicia Williams as a Tax Assessor, so do-over today.

Frances Brown wants to be reappointed to the Lowndes County Board of Health.

As required by state law, they’re setting the qualifying fee to run for County Commissioner: it’s $450.

Three grant application or acceptance items are on the agenda, for Juvenile Justice and Victims of Crime Act (VOCA).

Two Acceptance of Infrastructure, for Knights Landing Phase IV Section I,
and for Colbie Place Subdivision on River Road.

Four road widening items, and one Abandonment of Grice Road.


[Collage @ LCC Packet 2026-01-12]

Collage @ LCC Packet 2026-01-12

Finally,
$63,801.00
from SPLOST
for
10. Lakes Blvd Water Meter Relocation
“to meet commercial development needs in the area.”
At least it’s in Lake Park, so it’s not sprawl.

It’s interesting that they count that SPLOST expenditure as “BUDGET IMPACT”
but for

9.h.
FY 2026 Local Maintenance & Improvement Grant (LMIG) Application

the agenda sheet says “BUDGET IMPACT: N/A; 10% match allocated in SPLOST VIII” for Lake Alapaha Boulevard and other roads.

Here is the
agenda.

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is

on the LAKE website.

If they put it on their own website, lowndescounty.com,
under
Agenda Center,
nobody would have to file an open records request and county staff
wouldn’t have to spend time sending out packets.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2026, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2026, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

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QuickTrip signs and law office parking @ ZBOA 2020-03-03

At the Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA) this Tuesday afternoon,
QuickTrip on GA 133

wants a variety of sign variances.

[Sign placement plat]

Sign placement plat

Law firm
Dover Miller Karras Langdale & Brantley

wants a parking variance for their building addition on North Patterson Street.

[Parking Site Plan]

Parking Site Plan

A couple of ZBOA members will have to recuse themselves from that second item.

Staff recommend finding both items inconsistent and for ZBOA to deny them.

Here is the agenda.
See also the ZBOA board packet,
on the LAKE website courtesy of ZBOA member Gretchen Quarterman.

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

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Videos: 3 appointments, 1 well public hearing, Withlacoochee River Flood Map @ LCC 2016-07-12



They tabled the

Withlacoochee River Flood Inundation Map Project,
which is better than rejecting the idea of spending $40,000 to match Valdosta
for a composite 50% match for a USGS grant.

As expected from the previous morning, they appointed
Chairman Bill Slaughter to the
South Georgia Community Service Board, after he got that board to change the time of its meetings to be different from this Commission’s time.

They approved the
REZ-2016-12 Salami, 3320 Bemiss Rd community well for a home school science facility.

Below are links to each LAKE video of the Monday June 12th 2016
Lowndes County Commission
Regular Session, followed by a video playlist.
See also

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

the agenda.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Videos: 3 appointments, 1 well public hearing, Withlacoochee River Flood Map

Regular Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, July 12, 2016.

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Videos: 3 appointments, 1 well public hearing, Withlacoochee River Flood Map @ LCC 2016-07-11



They vote Tuesday 5:30 PM.
Monday morning at the Work Session,
after some resistance from a Commissioner, surprisingly Chairman Bill Slaughter
argued for

paying the $40,000 to match Valdosta on the LiDAR flood maps
to prevent loss of life and property damage.
He even said “folks that live in our cities are Lowndes County Citizens as well.”

Emergency Management Director Ashley Tye
answered questions the Commissioners didn’t think to ask about Continue reading →

3 appointments, 1 well public hearing, Withlacoochee River Flood Map @ LCC 2016-07-11

Monday morning,
will Lowndes County match Valdosta with
$40,000 for LiDAR for the
Withlacoochee River Flood Inundation Map Project?
They vote Tuesday 5:30 PM.



A bit more information about the
REZ-2016-12 Salami, 3320 Bemiss Rd community well for a home school science facility;
see also

the LAKE video of the June 27th 2016 Planning Commission review
of this rezoning request.

No explanation of why there’s a vacancy on the
South Georgia Community Service Board
nor why Chairman Bill Slaughter is who they’re going to appoint.
Reappointing Randall Crews to the
Valdosta- Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals
and
Paul Alvarado
to the
Valdosta/Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA). Continue reading →