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Videos: Deannexation + 2 Valdosta cases, 2 Lowndes County cases @ GLPC 2021-07-26

Here are LAKE videos of each agenda item of the Monday, July 26, 2021,
Regular Session of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC),
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
The big item was

5. VA-2021-16 (pt 1) Uvalde Land Co. Deannex 310 acres from the City of Valdosta.


Greater Lowndes Planning Commission 2021-07-26

See also
the agenda
and

Deannexation east of Withlacoochee River linked to subdivision west @ GLPC 2021-07-26.
LAKE videos of the following Lowndes County Commission and Valdosta City Council meetings will also be up soon.

Deannexation east of Withlacoochee River linked to subdivision west @ GLPC 2021-07-26

What does a big parcel of flood plain property on the east (left) bank of the Withlacoochee River have to do with a subdivision to the west,
both on the agenda
for this Monday’s Greater Lowndes Planning Commission?

Well, both seem to have been requested by the same person,
who is also somehow involved with the owner of the land in between.

What do the various LLCs and people involved want to do with
hundreds of acres of floodplain next to the Withlacoochee River?
They probably can’t build subdivisions on it,
but they could log it, dig sand mines, put a shooting range there,
or many other possibilities that might not be good for the river
or nearby homeowners.

I have filed an open records request with Lowndes County so we can find out more.

Let’s start with the Valdosta deannexation case:

City of Valdosta Cases:


  1. VA-2021-16 Uvalde Land Co. (Cherry Creek — Withlacoochee
    River) Deannex 310 acres from the City of Valdosta

[Map: Uvalde Land Company, LLC:]

Map: Uvalde Land Company, LLC:

The

Lowndes County Tax Assessor says: Continue reading →

Deannexation + 2 Valdosta cases, 2 Lowndes County cases @ GLPC 2021-07-26

A Valdosta deannexation and a Lowndes County rezoning case seem linked,
although that is not obvious by the agenda for Monday’s Greater Lowndes County Planning Commission.
See
the next blog post for how.

[GLPC Agenda July 2021]

GLPC Agenda July 2021

PDF

Here is the agenda.


Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


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

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

Monday, July 19, 2021 5:30 P.M. Work Session

Monday, July 26, 2021 5:30 P.M. Regular Session

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

Continue reading →

Former Harveys on Bemiss as Storage, Daycare not for teenagers, many Remerton cases @ GLPC 2021-05-24

Two items were contentious at the May 24, 2021 meeting of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC):
repurposing the former Harvey’s supermarket on Bemiss Road as a storage facility,
and

a daycare facility that some people were mysteriously concerned would have teenagers hanging around.


12. VA-2021-11 Jonathan Irvin, 512 North Forrest Street, PD - Daycare

There was also

rezoning of 32.06 acres on Ulmer Avenue for solar panels.
Plus many Remerton cases.

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

Update: rezonings w. Tiger Creek, whose communications tower? @ LCC 2020-09-08

Here are the answers to these questions from Saturday:

  1. Why is the owner of the planned 300-foot communications tower off US 84 a secret?
  2. Why does the agenda sheet for
    REZ-2020-11 Bella Mill Plantation, 8450 Ousley Rd.,
    next to Tiger Creek and a short distance upstream from the Withlacoochee River,
    make no mention of sewage or the size of the septic system relative to the
    number of expected attendees at the planned event facility?

[Proposed interior sketch]

Proposed interior sketch

  1. TWR 2020-02 is by Diamond Communications and AT&T.
  2. REZ-2020-11: the Department of Public Health determines septic system sizes.
    That Department won’t issue a septic system permit until they are satisfied.

These answers came from JD Dillard, Lowndes County Planning and Zoning Director.
I called him yesterday before the Regular Session Tuesday,
and he called back with the answers.

How does the Department of Health determine septic system sizes?
Partly by Continue reading →

Reappointment to GLPC, three rezonings w. Tiger Creek, whose communications tower? @ LCC 2020-09-07

Update 2020-09-09:
Update: rezonings w. Tiger Creek, whose communications tower? @ LCC 2020-09-08

Why is the owner of the planned 300-foot communications tower off US 84 a secret?
The Lowndes County Commission will deliberate on that rezoning and three more
Monday morning at 8:30 AM and vote on it Tuesday at 5:30 PM,
after these rezonings were heard Monday at the Planning Commission.

Why does the agenda sheet for
REZ-2020-11 Bella Mill Plantation, 8450 Ousley Rd.,
next to Tiger Creek and a short distance upstream from the Withlacoochee River,
make no mention of sewage or the size of the septic system relative to the
number of expected attendees at the planned event facility?
Why is there no mention of any speakers against this rezoning, even though
there was at least one at the Planning Commission?

[Conceptual Plan]

Conceptual Plan

PDF

In addition to two other rezonings, the County Commission will most likely

reappoint Tommy Willis to the Planning Commission.

Here is the
agenda.
The entire board packet for Monday and Tuesday
is
on the LAKE website,
along with the minutes for the previous meetings two weeks ago,
in response to a LAKE open records request.
Thanks to new County Clerk Belinda Lovern and Sabrina Denson for speedy responses to such requests.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor

  1. Call to Order Continue reading →

Event facility on Tiger Creek, mystery communications tower @ GLPC 2020-08-31

Update 2020-09-05:
Added to the LAKE website the files on late arrival Southern Tractor.

Lowndes County and Valdosta will hear several rezoning cases this week
that were before the Planning Commission Monday.
The County has
a

a family children partition case,
an

event center for weddings and such next to Tiger Creek,
for which staff recommends four conditions,
a

43.8 acre rezoning for Southern Tractor & Outdoors Valdosta Facility,
and a

300′ communications tower for an unnamed company.

[Tiger Creek and Parcel 0017 096, Tax Assessors Map]

Tiger Creek and Parcel 0017 096, Tax Assessors Map

The GLPC board packet materials for the Lowndes County cases are
on the LAKE website,
thanks to new Lowndes County Clerk Belinda Lovern,
in response to an open records request from LAKE.

The Lake Park and Hahira cases were already heard this week by their Councils and Mayors.

Here is the

agenda.
I’ve interpolated the WRPDO Site Map where I’ve got it
(the county didn’t send anything for REZ-2020-12),
and a Tax Assessors’ map otherwise. Continue reading →

Videos: Oak St. Pregnancy Clinic, Val Del Wetherington, Baytree Nijem @ GLPC 2020-02-24

The longest time, almost 16 minutes, was for

Pregnancy Support Clinic of Valdosta
at 2203 N. Oak St.,
followed at 14 minutes by

REZ-2020-03 Wetherington Property, Val Del Road RA to PD,
with 12 minutes for
the Jon Nijem rezoning
and
Planned Development at 406 & 410 Baytree Road,
in a relatively short February meeting of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission.


VA-2020-05 Pregnancy Support Clinic

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, with a few notes.
See also Continue reading →

Val Del Wetherington, Baytree Nijem, Pregnancy Clinic @ GLPC 2020-02-24

Neither of the two Valdosta cases
at Monday evening’s Planning Commission Regular Session
looks controversial, although you never know.
Jon Nijem wants to rezone
and then get approval for a
Planned Development at 406 & 410 Baytree Road.
And Pregnancy Support Clinic of Valdosta wants to
rezone for office space
at 2203 N. Oak St.

In Lowndes County, yet another Val Del Road subdivision,

REZ-2020-03 Wetherington Property,
is proposed diagonally northeast across the road from Nelson Hill,
which makes even clearer why the county wants to pave Clyattstone Road,
going from Val Del Road between those two west to Old US 41 North (see below).

[Wetherington property]

Lowndes County Property Appraiser,
Wetherington property,

WETHERINGTON FRANK L LIVING TRUST, parcels 0071 055, 056, 056A (not 55A), at
4154 and 4424 Val Del Road.

The subject property is in the watershed of Bay Branch, but apparently Continue reading →

Videos: Verizon Country Club tower, halfway house, and Providence Missionary Baptist Church @ GLPC 2020-01-27

Surprisingly the longest item on this (possibly) longest-ever Planning Commission agenda was

5. CU-2020-01 Verizon Wireless, conditional use cell tower at Country Club,
clocking in at almost an hour, accounting for almost a third of the more than three-hour meeting, and getting a denial recommendation on a split vote of 6:3:1.


VZ Country Club tower

Second longest at more than forty-two minutes was

6. CU-2020-02 Natalie Bailey, 4019 Forrest Run Circle – Halfway House,
resulting in a very unusual unanimous recommendation for denial.
The actual decision will be made at the
Valdosta City Council meeting tonight.

Usually church requests sail through, but

13. HA-2020-01 Providence Missionary Baptist Church, 707 West Park Street,
took more than sixteen minutes, largely to everyhone acting as a committee designing an access ramp which turned out to already be there.


Pete’s Otto had it pretty easy at nine minutes
Pete’s Otto was previously at GLPC
in
January 2017 about establishing its business,
and
at the Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA)
in
in July 2019 about setbacks.

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

GLPC agenda.
And the Valdosta City Council agenda for the meeting where they will decide the half-way house and other Valdosta items.