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Videos: slightly larger: The Settlement North on Val Del Road @ LCC 2018-12-11

In their one December 2018 Regular Session,
they couldn’t bring themselves to reject a rezoning, but
they did require still larger lot sizes, for

the Val Del Road rezoning.

That was the most elaborate series of motions I’ve seen on anything
in the dozen years I’ve been following the Lowndes County Commission.
It even exceeds the time somebody tried to rezone next to my west field
and they denied that one by not voting.

Nothing else took more than a few minutes.
The County Manager

asked for an emergency to Continue reading →

Videos: The Settlement North on Val Del Road back again @ LCC 2018-12-10

Molly Stevenson, Engineering/Planning Technician,
reminded Commissioners that the main reason for the Val Del Road
rezoning
is to be able to subdivide at a greater density.
Then she recited the reasons to deny it.

Chairman Bill Slaughter reminded Commissioners they’d tabled it twice, and
“I’d very much like to get this resolved at this meeting.”
By which he meant the Regular Session this evening at 5:30 PM,
not the Work Session yesterday morning at which he said that.
At least one Commissioner

had a question.

The second longest item was

6 m. Approval of the 2019 Commission Meeting Calendar,
because of two questions by Commissioners.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also Continue reading →

Back again: The Settlement North on Val Del Road @ LCC 2018-12-10

The agenda sheet says “the applicant’s conceptual site plan is attached.”
But of course we the taxpaying, traffic-affected, and water-drinking public don’t get to see it.

Why the Lowndes County Commission considering rezoning for a subdivision
that its own staff says doesn’t fit the Comprehensive Plan Character Area,
is outside the Urban Service Area, would add significant traffic, and many neighbors spoke against it, plus the Planning Commission recommended denial?
The Commission tabled in October, and again in November, when
Commissioners asked for an update, but now staff says, “There are no updates to the overall case status.”

If they can’t deny this one, what rezoning can they ever deny?

Photo: Still by LAKE from Lowndes County Commission video of its
9 Oct 2018 Regular Session.

Here is the agenda.
See also Continue reading →

Budget, LMIG, tractor, truck, 3 sewer items @ VCC 2018-06-21

On the

Valdosta City Council agenda this Thursday,
a budget public hearing (no agenda nor draft budget linked for that),
and a bunch of bids, including three about the sewer system,
ioncluding
sewer lines on Iola Drive,

manhole rehabilitation,
and

the Cured-In-Place-Pipe (CIPP) Lining Project.
Here’s the Invitation to Bid for CIPP.

Maybe this kind of

Sewer System Imprrovements
is why Valdosta has not had a major spill in a hear and a half,
while
Tifton continues to spill.
Also, over on the Flint River,

Albany recently spilled quite a bit.
Don’t worry: if Valdosta spills again, you’ll hear about it.

AGENDA

REGULAR MEETING

OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL

5:30 PM Thursday, June 21, 2018

COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL

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Food Trucks on Agenda @ Hahira 2018-05-03

They are also talking about water tanks and treesand the work on I-75
Exit 29,
including what the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT)
hasn’t covered that may have to be picked up in SPLOST VII.

Photo:

WTXL ABC 27 News.

But the main topic, with a Public Hearing, is food trucks.
That Zoning Text Amendment didn’t fare very well with
the Planning Commission Monday.
But of course GLPC is only advisory, and Hahira can decide whatever it wants.
Expect at least the same speakers tonight as you can see in the

LAKE videos of that Planning Commission meeting.

Thanks to Hahira City Clerk Lisa Mashburn for Continue reading →

Videos: Proclamations, Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-10

The two longest items were proclamations, for the

Teen Explosion Youth Action Group
and for

Telecommunications Week.
Everything else sailed through.

Below are links to each LAKE video, followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See previous post
for Continue reading →

Thoroughfare Plan, RR bridge, resurfacing four roads, opioids @ LCC 2018-04-09

You can’t see the
Special Presentation by Attorney Haynes Studstill on Opioid Litigation (Work Session)
because Gretchen was not there with the LAKE video camera yesterday morning,
and

the agenda
says it’s only in the Work Session.
Lowndes County does video its own County Commission meetings,
but they haven’t posted the video of that yet.
Meanwhile, the City of Valdosta did

decide to join a lawsuit against big pharma about opioid addiction.
Another county legal item for tonight is
FY2019 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Program Request for Proposals (RFP).

They’re doing an
Update to the Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan, which is for:

Road Map,

2009 Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan.

HISTORY, FACTS AND ISSUES: The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners
first adopted the Thoroughfare Plan in 1983. Since then, the
Thoroughfare Plan has been revised numerous times Continue reading →

Rail Meeting 2 tonight in Valdosta

All aboard for the second and last rail plan meeting in Valdosta tonight.
Maybe you see something missing in

the current passenger rail corridor
proposal pictured on the right.
Maybe you’d like to suggest some changes or additions.

Stuart Taylor wrote for the VDT today,

Rail plan meeting scheduled,

Georgia Department of Transportation will host a 2014 Georgia state
rail plan public meeting from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the
Valdosta City Hall Annex, 300 N. Lee St.