The new Nottinghill development on Orr Road (instead of
Cat Creek Road)
has been tabled at request of the developer and county staff; something
about signature collection, Gretchen reports from
the GLPC meeting.
More later.
GLPC didn’t list any street numbers of parcel numbers, but there’s only one property on Orr Road that’s 14.99 acres, owned by William Henry Wright, backing up to his property on Stafford Wright Road.
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A county developer has moved roads, plus 3 out of 5 local cities at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission tonight, plus “Attendance policy for appointed Boards”: are we going to expect them to show up now? A Hahira variance, a Valdosta conditional use permit and a rezoning, a Dasher zoning text amendment, and rezonings on four Lowndes County roads, including New Statenville Highway, Whitewater Road @ Williams Road, Barrington Drive @ Bemiss Road, and Orr Road.
That Orr Road one uses the same name, Nottinghill,
as one that
on Cat Creek Road that previously got tabled and never came back.
GLPC didn’t list any street numbers of parcel numbers, but
there’s only one property on Orr Road that’s 14.99 acres,
owned by William Henry Wright, backing up to his
property on Stafford Wright Road.
Have the Nottinghill developers made a deal with him for Orr Road
since the neighbors didn’t want them on Cat Creek Road?
Here’s the agenda. Continue reading
Flood control to keep water out of houses seems like a good idea,
but it turns out that it causes the flood control measures to keep
needing to be raised higher, and it encourages people to build
too close to flooding areas, plus
“rare and catastrophic events take place”.
Like the 2009 “700 year flood” and the
four or more floods this year
that have overflowed the Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant.
In our case, there are also the issues of widespread clearcutting
and buildings and streets with impervious cover.
The local runoff containment requirements in the various local government zoning codes may be
like levees: “flood control
structures might even increase flood risk as protection from
frequent flooding reduces perceptions of risk”.
This encourages human settlements in floodplain areas, which are then vulnerable to high-consequence and low-probability events.Much simpler just not to give out building permits for flood zones. Or we could put medical buildings right next to a creek, assuming because it’s never flooded it never will….
Socio-hydrology: conceptualising human-flood interactions, G. Di Baldassarre, A. Viglione, G. Carr, L. Kuil, J. L. Salinas, and G. Bloschl, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 17, 3295–3303, 2013 doi:10.5194/hess-17-3295-2013, © Author(s) 2013. CC Attribution 3.0 License.
Abstract. Over history, humankind has tended to settle near streams Continue reading
Magaret Ellen Hill is
Employee of the month, and
they rejected
the sidewalk bids
putting them out for rebid,
after they unanimously approved
the medical development to span One Two Mile Branch
at the Valdosta City Council Regular Session of 5 September 2013.
Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos, and a few notes.
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, September 5, 2013
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
- Opening Ceremonies
- Call to Order
- Invocation
- Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag
Awards and Presentations
- Consideration of the September, 2013 Employee of the Month Award (Margaret Ellen Hill, Main Street Department).
She helped extend Downtown Valdosta Farm Days by two months.
- Minutes Approval
- Valdosta City Council – Regular Meeting – Aug 22, 2013 5:30 PM
Approved unanimously with no changes.
- Public Hearings
Commissioner Franklin Bailey summed up the Dollar General proposal for Hahira:
There’s just a lot here we don’t have.
Hahira City Council votes tonight on the Teramore Development items, which are for a Dollar General (like the one in Naylor), as we discovered at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission Regular Session 26 August 2013, even though the agenda doesn’t say. GLPC recommended for it, even though engineering details hadn’t been done for water management, the site plan wasn’t finalized, and no solution was proposed for Dollar General’s corporate habit of using sidewalks for cart storage, among many other issues.
Planning Commission Agenda for 2013-08-26,
with links to the videos: Continue reading
The medical development to span One Mile Branch
recommended by the Planning Commission
is up for a vote tonight, along with sidewalk bids elsewhere,
by the Valdosta City Council.
Plus September, 2013 Employee of the Month is Margaret Ellen Hill, Main Street Department.
Here’s the agenda:
AGENDA
REGULAR MEETING OF THE VALDOSTA CITY COUNCIL
5:30 PM Thursday, September 5, 2013
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL
- Opening Ceremonies
- Call to Order
- Invocation
- Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag
- Awards and Presentations
- Consideration of the September, 2013 Employee of the Month Award (Margaret Ellen Hill, Main Street Department).
- Minutes Approval
- Valdosta City Council – Regular Meeting – Aug 22, 2013 5:30 PM
- Public Hearings
- Consideration of an Ordinance to rezone 4.96 acres from Single-Family Residential (R- 6) and (R-10) to Office-Professional (O-P) as requested by UHS Pruitt Corporation (File No. VA-2013-12). The property is located at 1501 North Lee Street. The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission reviewed this request at their August Regular Meeting and recommended approval (7-0 vote).
- Consideration of an Ordinance for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a Residential Care Facility in Office-Professional (O-P) zoning as requested by UHS-Pruitt Corporation (File No. CU-2013-02). The property is located at 1501 North Lee Street. The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission reviewed this request at their August Regular Meeting and recommended approval with five conditions (7-0 vote).
- Bids, Contracts, Agreements and Expenditures
- Consideration of bids for the Sidewalk Installation Project on Lamar Street and North Oak Street.
- City Manager’s Report
- Council Comments
- Citizens to be Heard
- Adjournment
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That looks like a creek running through 1501 North Lee Street,
as Valdosta City Council Sonny Vickers asked Tuesday and
is on the Valdosta City Council agenda for a vote tonight,
after being considered for a recommendation
at the
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission Regular Session 26 August 2013.
Matthew Woody wrote for the VDT yesterday,
City discusses zoning request,
Councilman Sonny Vickers expressed concern about the facility being too close to the stream. He asked if the City approved this and there was a flood, would the City be liable. He asked if any of the surrounding areas have been flooded in the past, and Martin said that in the past 43 years, there has never been an issue.
And what about waste flowing downstream or into the aquifer?
Extract from the Planning Commission agenda with links to the videos:
CITY OF VALDOSTA CASES:
FINAL ACTION by the City of Valdosta Mayor-Council
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Valdosta City Hall, 216 E. Central Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia
Council Chambers, 2nd Floor
5:30 p.m.
- VA-2013-12 UHS Pruitt Corporation
Property Location: 1501 North Lee Street (Parkwood Development Center)Continue reading
Two Valdosta cases, both for health care company UHS Pruitt, and two Hahira cases, both for real estate developer Teramore Development, at the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission tonight.
Here’s the agenda.
Greater Lowndes Planning CommissionContinue readingLowndes 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 AvenueMonday, August 26, 2013* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
The
big item was a public-private partnership for units to be rented only to
military personnel, built on top of the same soil as has a sinkhole
next door.
They also approved a no-bid contract for
a drinking water treatment plant upgrade near the Alapaha River,
plus another no-bid contract for Lovell Engineering, for
wastewater treatment.
And they’re so confident SPLOST VII will be approved
by the voters (even though they never held a town hall or public hearing)
that staff is going to ask the state
to continue collections in January;
plus Gretchen pointed out that
if citizens knew what was in SPLOST they might be more willing to vote for it.
Including maybe even
the woman who noted that since garbage trucks
are coming down her road it needs to be fixed.
Here’s the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes, including a few links to related posts.
Continue readingLOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 2013, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
If voters knew what they were voting for with SPLOST VII,
maybe they’d be more likely to vote for it,
noted Gretchen Quarterman
at the
13 August 2013 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
Gretchen Quarterman said she was happy about the work the county had done with the cities to figure out SPLOST VII, but:
Last year we didn’t do a good job in the county about getting the county residents to go and vote for SPLOST so now we’re in this gap. Thank you for figuring out how to fill the gap; if we do that, that’s good.
One of the things that I think would really help us Continue reading
