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Videos: 2 Lowndes County rezonings; 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2013-02-25

Two applicants in a row said they didn’t know until recently that their properties had restrictions on them, and even staff seemed confused about at least one of them. Maybe there’s something wrong with how the county makes that information available to purchasers of property? Almost nobody attended the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission meeting of 25 February 2013, as you can see from these videos.

Here’s the agenda. And here’s a summary of the cases.

Lowndes County, Final action, Tuesday 12 March 2013

2. REZ-2013-03 Valler

Knights Academy Road, Valdosta
Request to rezone 10 acres from R-21 (Medium Density Residential) to R-A (Residential Agriculture)

They want two pet thoroughbred horses on the property. Nobody spoke against.

Applicant spoke for, saying the property was purchased by his mother, who is currently in Iraq, and they had been under the impression it was already zoned agricultural. When they discovered it wasn’t, they applied to change it.

In discussion Jody Hall asked Continue reading →

Agenda: 2 Lowndes County rezonings; 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2013-02-25

To get an agenda for tonight’s Planning Commission meeting, apparently you have to go to the meeting; here it is. It’s sloppier than usual: Case REZ-2013-04 has neither a number of acres nor a specific location. Why is the Planning Commission not revealing this information?

Douglas O. Thompson owns two properties on Bemiss Road, but one of them is in Valdosta taxing district, so presumably it’s the other one, of 1.28 acres at 3432 Bemiss Road. Why is this a secret?

Perhaps for the same reason that the county doesn’t just publish PDF of this agenda on the web for all to see?

Here’s a summary of the cases.

Lowndes County, Final action Tuesday 12 March 2013	2. REZ-2013-03 Valler Knights Academy Road, Valdosta Request to rezone 10 acres from R-21 (Medium Density Residential) to R-A (Residential Agriculture)
	3. REZ-2013-04 Thompson Bemiss Road, Valdosta Request to rezone [?] acres from C-H/c (Highway Commercial conditional) to C-H (Highway Commercial)
Valdosta, Final Action Thursday, 7 March 2013	4. VA-2013-01 Turner Brooks LLC 411 West Mary Street, Valdosta Request to rezone 0.50 acres from R-6 (Single Family Residential) to R-M (Multi-Family Residential)

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Planning Commission yesterday: did you know? @ GLPC 2013-01-28

Did you see an agenda or an announcement that the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) was meeting yesterday? Nor did LAKE. Matt Martin, Valdosta City Planner, usually sends an agenda to Gretchen, but there were no Valdosta items on this agenda, so he apparently didn’t even get one. And the county still doesn’t publish GLPC agendas, so if there was an item on there that affected you, how could you know? Does that seem right to you?

On the agenda were three Lowndes County rezoning items, all involving C-H (Highway Commercial), and one Lake Park rezoning case, going to R-P (Residential/Professional). Here’s a summary of the cases. You know, if I can do this in a couple of minutes by typing it in from a photograph that Gretchen took, Lowndes County could do it in a second by pressing Export to PDF. Now that there’s a new Chairman, maybe he’ll say they should do that.

Lowndes County, Final action Tuesday 12 Feb 2013	4. REZ-2012-20 Corbett US 41 South and Newsome Road, Valdosta Request to rezone ~5 acres from E-A (Estate Agriculture) to C-H (Highway Commercial)
	5. REZ-2013-01 Barrentine 102 Davis Road East, Valdosta Request to rezone 1.2 acres from C-H (Highway Commercial) to R-1 (Low Density Residential)
	6. REZ-2013-02 Interstate Land Management Briarwood Road along I-75, Valdosta Request to rezone 4.87 acres from R-1 (Low Density Residential) to C-H (Highway Commercial)
Lake Park, Final Action Tuesday 5 Feb 2013	LP-12-2012-01 Karen K. Nolan and Blanche C. Bush 105 Broadway Street, Lake Park Request to rezone 0.46 acres from R-15 (Single Family Residential) to R-P (Residential/Professional)