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Nottinghill resolved, Spectra profit sharing? Planning Commission transparency? @ LCC 2013-12-10



The Commission’s designated first speaker

confused order with good.
Chairman Bill Slaughter
required a sitting judge to go to the podium to speak,
even though he had not required that for multiple Spectra pipeline reps
the previous morning.
Nottinghill is finally resolved,
after yet more probing questions by Commissioners; more than they
asked the Spectra reps.
A

VSU professor
and

a landowner
asked very good questions about the pipeline,
a

KLVB board member gave a report,
and

Gretchen asked the Commission to post Planning Commission minutes online.

Two people were

appointed; one spoke.
The two

beer licenses, a

liquor license,
the

decorative special tax lighting district for Windstone,
the

contracts,
the

resolution to ask the legislature for an additional judge,
and the

bids were all approved with little discussion.
The

settlement for back pay it turns out didn’t
actually involve
employees having to sue to get paid.

Here’s

the amended agenda with the

two added items,
plus links to the videos and a few notes.
See also

the previous morning’s Work Session.

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

AMENDED AGENDA

WORK SESSION, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street — 2nd Floor

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Put Planning Commission agendas and minutes on web like for ZBOA? –Gretchen Quarterman @ LCC 2013-12-10

It’s curious how the City of Valdosta manages to put agendas and minutes
for the Zoning Board of Appeals online, but Lowndes County doesn’t put
agendas and minutes for the Planning Commission online.
Gretchen Quarterman asked the County Commission to fix that, at the

10 December 2013 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.

She noted that to get the minutes of the Planning Commission she
had to file an open records request, and what she got was paper.



And I’ll show you one here.
I’m relatively certain this wasn’t typed on a typewriter.
It was typed on a computer.
And I’d really like to get a computer copy of it;
an electronic copy.
I always just get a paper copy.
So, my request would be:
could I please get open records requests in electronic form
when they’re available?
And, even better, could the county
put these minutes on the website somewhere?

Here’s

the video: Continue reading →

Agenda! yes Nottinghill and new chair and vice-chair, 1 Hahira, 4 Valdosta @ GLPC 2013-11-25


Agenda page 2 @ GLPC 2013-11-25
How would you as a citizen have known
Nottinghill
is on the real agenda
they’re using right now in the Planning Commission meeting?
What if you wanted to speak for or against in that public hearing?

The one in the last post wasn’t the real agenda,
and even some people who work for local governments didn’t know that.

Here is the real agenda, photographed by Gretchen just now,
followed by text version.
It also contains an additional item about
election of a new Chair and Vice Chair.


Agenda page 1 @ GLPC 2013-11-25

Update: I had the date of this meeting wrong in the transcription; fixed now to November 25, 2013. If the county published the agendas and minutes of the Planning Commission, nobody would have to be transcribing by hand….

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes 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 Avenue

Monday, November 25, 2013* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing



CALL TO ORDER, INVOCATION, PLEDGE


  1. Approval of the Minutes: October 28, 2013



CITY OF HAHIRA CASE:


FINAL ACTION by the City of Hahira Mayor-Council

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Hahira City Hall, 102 S. Church Street, Hahira, Georgia

7:30 p.m.


  1. HA-2013-05 Wendy Black


    Property Location: 7495 Union Road

    Request for Variance from Section 10-6 of the Hahira Zoning Ordinance pertaining to size requirements for signs



CITY OF VALDOSTA CASES:


FINAL ACTION by the City of Valdosta Mayor-Council

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Valdosta City Hall, 216 E. Central Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

Council Chambers, 2nd Floor

5:30 p.m.


  1. CU-2013-04 Cynthia McDougle


    Property Location: 808 Bethune Street

    Request for a Conditional Use Permit to establish a personal care home for 4-6 residents in a Single-Family Residential (R10) zoning district


  2. CU-2013-05 Jessie Marshall, III


    Property Location: 625 East Gordon Street

    Request for a Conditional Use Permit to establish a church in a Single-Family Residential (R-6) zoning district


  3. CU-2013-06 Theresa Patterson


    Property Location: 108 East Adair Street

    Request for a Conditional Use Permit to establish a personal care home for 4-6 residents in a Residential Professional (R-P) zoning district


  4. VA-2013-16 Mac Mackey


    Property Location: 103 B Avenue

    Request to rezone 2.2 acres from Manufacturing/Distribution (M-2) to Wholesale Light Industrial (M-1)


Agenda page 2 @ GLPC 2013-11-25




LOWNDES COUNTY CASES:


FINAL ACTION by the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Lowndes County Judicial and Administrative Complex

Commission Chambers, 2nd Floor

327 North Ashley Strcet, Valdosta, Georgia

5:30 p.m.



  1. REZ-2013-11 Nottinghill


    Location: Orr Road, Valdosta, Georgia

    Request to rezone 14.99 acres from R-A (Residential Agricultural) to R-21
    (Medium Density Residential)

    *Note: This case was tabled from the GLPC’s
    September 29th
    and
    October 28th,
    2013, regular mtg.



    REZ-2013-11 Nottinghill was tabled by GLPC
    30 September 2013
    and again

    28 October 2013    .


    REZ-2013-11 was also tabled by the Lowndes County Commission

    8 October 2013
    and

    12 November 2013    , specifically
    until the County Commission’s 10 December 2013 meeting.

OTHER BUSINESS




  1. Attendance policy for appointed Boards

  2. Election of 2014 GLPC Chair and Vice Chair


  3. GLPC 2014 Meeting Schedule


ADJOURNMENT

-jsq

Agenda: No Nottinghill and no county cases, 1 Hahira, 4 Valdosta @ GLPC 2013-11-25



I guessed wrong:
Nottinghill is not on the agenda.
Yet the County Commission decided at its November meeting to hear
Nottinghill at its 10 December 2013 meeting, which will be without
the Planning Commission ever having discussed this item.
How is that right?
If Planning Commission agendas were made public some days before
the meetings, the public could point out things like this in time
for them to be fixed.



REZ-2013-11 Nottinghill was tabled by GLPC
30 September 2013
and again

28 October 2013.


REZ-2013-11 was also tabled by the Lowndes County Commission

8 October 2013
and

12 November 2013, specifically
until the County Commission’s 10 December 2013 meeting.
So if the Planning Commission doesn’t discuss Nottinghill tonight,
the County Commission can vote on it in December without the
Planning Commission ever having discussed it.

Here’s the agenda for tonight, supplied by an informant about an hour ago.
Will anyone from the county even show up, since without Nottinghill
there are no county cases on the agenda?
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No public agenda for Planning Commission today @ GLPC 2013-11-25



Why so secretive, planning board that recommends on
issues that affect citizens all over Lowndes County?
Where is your agenda for your meeting at 5:30 PM today?
Sure, Gretchen only asked for it today, but why
does LAKE have to wheedle it out of somebody?
Why don’t you or the county publish it so the
public can see?
Do you, the affected public, agree with
Lowndes County Chairman Bill Slaughter that

transparency is not a problem?

We can guess the proposed Nottinghill subdivision will be back,
since it got tabled (again) at GLPC’s

October meeting.


Also probably the

attendance policy, since last time the GLPC Chairman wasn’t there
and only 6 of 11 Commissioners showed up.
But what else?
And why should have to guess what public business a public board
is taking up tonight?
Why do we have this Planning Commission if it doesn’t take its
responsibilities to the citizens of this county seriously enough
to show up or to tell us what it’s doing?

Lowndes County doesn’t even have today’s meeting

on its public calendar.
The City of Valdosta

does;
here’s

Valdosta’s GLPC listing for today: Continue reading →

Videos: Steward, Chancy, VLCIA, Nottinghill, and Teramore @ GLPC 2013-10-28



Prequel of the
bogus VLMPO maps!
Maybe the

Valdosta City Council tonight
will clarify why the
Industrial Authority is asking it to

annex
and

rezone
a parcel it apparently does not own.
Here’s what the Planning Commission said about that,
plus rezonings in

Dasher
(no speakers and approved unanimously)
and

Hahira
(tabled at request of applicant;
see

separate post for more on that one),
plus two in Lowndes County:

Teramore (yes, it’s Dollar General again, and they unanimously recommended it),
and

Nottinghill is

back and got tabled again.

Here’s

the agenda with links to the videos and a few notes.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes 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 Avenue

Monday, October 28, 2013* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Videos: Nottinghill tabled, Barrington, Whitewater, New Statenville + VLD * 2 + Dasher + Hahira variance @ GLPC 2013-09-30



In last month’s Planning Commission meeting we learned that
developers get agenda items in PDF;
yet the county still doesn’t publish agendas or minutes,
much less agenda packets, online.

Nottinghill (on Orr rather than Cat Creek Road this time)
was

tabled.

Norwood (on Springhill Drive in Valdosta)
got recommended denial by 5-4
and was later

withdrawn,
plus a
a

Hahira variance (5 to 3 against), a

Valdosta conditional use permit (unanimously recommended),
a

Dasher zoning text amendment (unanimously recommended),
and three other rezonings in Lowndes County, on

New Statenville Highway,

Whitewater Road @ Williams Road,
and

Barrington Drive @ Bemiss Road.

Here’s

the agenda, with links to the videos and a few notes.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes 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 Avenue

Monday, September 30, 2013* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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HA-2013-04 Bert Chancy parcel on north side of Claudia Drive @ GLPC 2013-10-28

Received yesterday. -jsq



Hahira re-zoning issue for land adjacent to Hahira Elementary School
intended for apartment construction. Several citizens have expressed
concerns for increased traffic in a school area and reduced property
values. If you are for or against you need to be at the

Planning Commission meeting Monday 10/28/13 and at the Hahira City Council
meeting Thursday 11/07/13 to voice your opinion. You do not have to
be a city resident to comment and parents of school children can
express their traffic & safety concerns if desired.

-Barbara Stratton

Claudia Drive, Chancy Development Company LLC:

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Steward, Chancy, VLCIA, Nottinghill, and Teramore @ GLPC 2013-10-28



Why is the Industrial Authority asking Valdosta to

annex
and

rezone
a parcel it apparently does not own?
That plus rezonings in

Dasher
and

Hahira
(see

separate post for more on that one),
plus two in Lowndes County:

Teramore,
and

Nottinghill is

back.

Here’s the agenda.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes 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 Avenue

Monday, October 28, 2013* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Spectra met Lowndes and Valdosta @ Pipeline 2013-10-16



Spectra Energy subsidiary Sabal Trail Transmission held

a landowner one-on-one at Wiregrass Tech last night.
Matthew Woody of the VDT was there, as was one Valdosta City Council
member, one Lowndes County Commissioner, and at least two county staff,
plus some landowners (“might as well get something out of this”,
several said at the food bar), one of whom was a match for Andrea Grover.

Matthew Woody, VDT:

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