The organization that considers every rezoning request

for Lowndes County
or any of the cities of Valdosta, Dasher, Hahira, or Lake Park,
the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission,

meets tonight, 5:30 PM, 29 August 2011.
This appointed body decides nothing, but it does make recommendations to the
elected governing body of the appropriate county or city,
which does take those recommendations into account before deciding.
If you want to rezone, or if there’s rezoning near you,
you would do well to go to the Planning Commission meeting
before it gets to your local elected body.

The Planning Commission’s remit is not just rezoning cases.
According to

the City of Valdosta’s writeup:

The mission of the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) is to look
beyond short-term solutions in planning for the future of the Greater
Lowndes community; to improve the public health, safety, convenience and
welfare; and to provide for the social, economic and physical development
of communities on a sound and orderly basis, within a governmental
framework and economic environment which fosters constructive growth
and efficient administration.

The Planning Commission meets at the old Lowndes County Commission offices:

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