Tag Archives: Lowndes County

Private Roads, Alcohol, and Water: Lowndes County Commission Packet @ LCC 2019-08-26

Received Wednesday, after
the Lowndes County Commission voted on it Tuesday evening,
the board packet is on the LAKE website.
Apparently the County Clerk’s office is going to wait the full three
days after an open records request to press the button to forward the packet.
So we’ll be sure to send requests more than three days before the Regular Session.

The drainage easement agreement with Lake Park did not have a map.
The abandonment of part of Ivandale Circle did:

Survey Plat, Hammock Hill Heights

There was also a map with the copiously documented
Beer, Wine, and Liquor license: Continue reading →

Videos: Private Roads, Alcohol, and Water @ LCC 2019-08-26

“You’ll see on the attached drawing….” and

“You will see in your packet….”,
but you the taxpayers and voters cannot see, because
the county has not put the packet on its website and has not
yet returned it in response to an open records request by LAKE.

Did you know

a rollback of 0.126 mills was scheduled for a
5PM meeting today, with adoption at the 5:30PM meeting?

Surprise eighteen minutes yesterday morning on

procedures for taking private roads into the county road system.

Three Lowndes County Commission items are about water: Continue reading →

Sixty-one lots on Val Del Road @ GLPC 2019-08-26

Apparently NATCO LLC wants to rezone 28 acres of its 567.12 acre Parcel 0072 061
to build 61 house lots.

Parcel 0072 061, NATCO LLC

Where along Val Del Road it wants to put them is not stated in the

Planning Commission agenda
for today.
I’d guess close to the existing lots to the south, but the county
ran water and sewer up to Nelson Hill, which you can see to the
northwest of the NATCO tract,
so the subdivision could be anywhere along Val Del in that tract.

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

~ Lowndes County

~ City of Valdosta

~ City of Dasher

~ City of Hahira

~ City of Lake Park

~ City of Remerton ~

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA

Monday, August 26, 2019 5:30 P.M.

Public Hearing, Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

Continue reading →

Alcohol, Roads, and Water @ LCC 2019-08-26

Three Lowndes County Commission items are about water: Transfer of Drainage Easement Agreement between Lowndes County and the City of Lake Park, and two Lift Station Pumps, Francis Lake for $49,103.25 to buy a new pump and Peterson Road for $29,689.20 for repairs for lightning damage, both to Xylem. There is no mention of bids.

Francis Lake or Frances Lake keeps coming up at the County Commission and the Planning Commission.

County Manager Joe Pritchard has a mystery item, Continue reading →

Videos and packet: Millage, SPLOST VIII, Wastewater, roads, bridges, mosquitos, Construction Board @ LCC 2019-08-12

County Manager Joe Pritchard said Finance Director Stephanie Black has

received a millage report from the Tax Commissioner.
He and she will prepare something from it for the Lowndes County Commissioners for a later meeting.

The board packet is

on the LAKE website,
in response to a LAKE open records request.

Below are Continue reading →

Videos: SPLOST VIII, Grassy Pond Sewer, and Hospital Authority funding @ LCC 2019-07-23

Five and a half minutes of the
Regular Session fifteen minutes was on

the county guaranteeing refinancing Hospital Authority debt,
due to County Manager Joe Pritchard reciting what’s in the agreement,
and Hospital Authority CEO Bill Forbes
speaking, and Chairman Bill Slaughter thanking him.
The agreement is in the board packet on the LAKE website from a LAKE open records request.

Citizen

Michelle Williams of Hahira asked for a spay and neuter ordinance,
noting Macon and Dalton have those already.
County Clerk Paige Dukes

praised Michelle Williams and other volunteers.

Second at almost two minutes was Continue reading →

$1.5 mllion on wastewater, SPLOST VIII, roads, bridges, mosquitos, Construction Board @ LCC 2019-08-12

The resolution to reimpose the SPLOST tax as
SPLOST VIII,
was not included with

the agenda for the tax-paying public to see.
LAKE has filed an open records request for the entire board packet.
Perhaps the county will supply it before they vote tomorrow.

Land Application Site

Four bids were received for
LAS and Pump Station Improvements
with the high bid at $3.3 million, and the low at $2.5 million,
but apparently the county negotiated the low bidder,
Doyle Hancock & Sons, down to
$1,520,858.00.
This is “for improvements to the LAS [Land Application Site, aka wastewater spray field], Bevel Creek, Francis Lake, and Coleman Road lift stations.”
The LAS is between Grassy Pond and Pike Pond, a few thousand feet from the GA-FL line, in the Withlacoochee River watershed. Continue reading →

Videos: Leadershp Lowndes, KLVB, ZBOA, Library board, three rezonings @ LCC 2019-07-09

Twenty-two minutes, quite long for the Lowndes County Commission,
with four minutes on the

ZBOA appointment with a split vote,
and most of the rest on the three rezonings,
with five and a half minutes on

6a. REZ-2019-09 Mark Courson, 5761 Long Pond Rd. R-1 to R-10.

The Chairman held forth about Leadership Lowndes

at the end of the meeting.
It’s like he’s not running again and is getting the most out of his time up there.

Commissioner Clay Griner was not present.

Below are Continue reading →

One Valdosta Lowndes County case, solar fence, Lake Park, GA @ ZBOA 2019-08-06

Update 2019-09-24:
LAKE videos.

Only one case on the

ZBOA agenda today:

VAR-2019-09 — Tycor Farms (6734 Georgia Highway 376, Lake Park) Request for a variance….

Aerial photograph with buffers marked

Oops, it’s not really at that address; that’s a neighbor’s house.
Also, the Technical Review Committee (TRC)
changed from recommending denial due to no hardship
to recommending
approval.

Actually it’s at 6530 GA 376,
according to a followup letter from the applicant’s representative.

And it’s pretty obvious from the applicant’s aerial map that it’s
next to a creek,
which as it happens runs into Enoch Creek, then into the Alapahoochee River,
into the Alapaha, the Suwannee, and on to the Gulf.
Yet I don’t see a word about wetlands in the application.

Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Valdosta Planning and Zoning Office

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Lowndes County Zoning Office

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

August 6, 2019

2:30 p.m. Continue reading →

Special Called Meeting to approve SPLOST VIII Projects @ LCC 2019-07-31

You got a notice about this meeting two days in advance,
if you signed up for the county’s alerts, which is twice as long as they usually do.

Special Called Meeting,

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

A special called meeting will be held to adopt the amended SPLOST VIII Agreement.

Date:
July 31, 2019

Time:
8:30 AM

Location:
Board of Commissioners

Administration Building

Address:
327 N. Ashley Street

2nd Floor

Valdosta, GA 31601

Lowndes Project List

PDF

Here is Lowndes County’s SPLOST VIII Project List.
The biggest items are water and sewer at $23 million
and sports at $13,274,912,
followed by the historic Courthouse at $12 million.
Note nothing about Continue reading →

On the LAKE front

Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange