During yesterday’s 3PM work session, Commissioner Lee asked the County Planner Continue reading
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Regarding
condominiums and zoning
in the Lowndes County ULDC,
Georgia condominium law
basically says that zoning
can’t deny condos if some other form of ownership is permitted.
If there’s a five acre minimum, only one condo unit could fit
in that five acres, but with community membership
with the other condos on the associated property..
For example, on an 18 acre piece of property,
the maximum number of units would be 3 or 4.
Of course, a condominium doesn’t have to be a dwelling unit. As Gary Stock points out The key feature is joint ownership:
“A condominium is not a building. It is a form of ownership.”it could be a horse farm, a hunting camp, a fishing club, or other. There usually needs to be a general common area, then some limited common areas with building envelopes for condo unit owners to use to build buildings (or maybe buildings are already there). The catch is that because a condominium is all one piece of property jointly owned, drawing limited common areas and building envelopes doesn’t require zoning approval.
Appended is one of the more relevant sections of the Georgia code.
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§ 44-3-114. Effect of article upon land use, zoning, building, and subdivision laws; effect of Code Section 44-3-92; applicability of land use and zoning ordinances or laws to expandable condominiumContinue reading
Juarez, Mexico, is farther down the road of emphasizing law and order
over education and jobs, as Melissa del Bosque reports in the Texas Observer abo
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Mexico’s Lost Generations:
When Juarez’s (soon to be outgoing) Mayor Jose Reyes-Ferriz visited Austin last April something he said stuck with me.Mexican president Calderon, previously consumed by the drug war, finally noticed and did something:He told the audience that a failure to invest in schools and other public infrastructure had led to the lawlessness in his city. Instead of schools and daycare centers, city leadership only invested in maquila parks and roads. Children were left on the streets to fend for themselves as their parents worked in the maquila factories for meager wages.
“More than 5,000 residents have received job-training grants or temporary work sprucing up parks and sidewalks and planting trees. Officials added thousands of families to a government insurance program and handed out 6,000 scholarships in a city where few students were receiving such help.”Todos somos Juarez (We Are All Juarez).“It’s not enough to analyze it only in terms of public safety. You have serious gaps in the social and economic [areas] that have to be closed,” said Antonio Vivanco, a Calderon advisor overseeing the development effort.
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