The most exciting ZBOA thing last month was nominations for Chair and Vice-Chair.
Here is the agenda:
Valdosta – Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals
Matt Martin,
Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator
300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 259-3563Carmella Braswell,
Lowndes County Zoning Administrator
327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia
(229) 671-2430AGENDA
October 2, 2018
2:30 p.m.
The six Joe Nijem
Remerton cases are merely for public input.
Wait, isn’t everything before the GLPC merely advisory?
So how are these items different?
Two of the five
Valdosta cases are for Michael Howell on West Gordon Street.
And then there’s
Knights Landing Development, LLC,
for which
the Tax Assessors’ acreages don’t add up to the stated 42 acres,
for the sketched out medieval street names on Hoyle Lane and the nearby property on Bemiss Knights Academy Road, off Bemiss Road.
Knights Development LLC, parcel 01458 357, REZ-2018-18
All on
the agenda for this evening at the Planning Commission.
Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
Lowndes County
City of Valdosta
City of Dasher
City of Hahira
City of Lake Park
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
AGENDA
Monday, October 29, 2018 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing
Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office
325 West Savannah Avenue
In the
VDT Community Calendar:
Board of Assessors Special Called meeting, 9 a.m. Oct. 25, 1st
floor, Lowndes County Governmental Building, 302 N. Patterson St.
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If not consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, nor with the water and sewer growth plan,
fire and rescue doesn’t want it, and the Planning Commission recommended rejecting it,
what does it take for the Lowndes County Commission to reject a zoning,
in this case for
REZ-2018-17 for
The Settlement North, 5999 Val Del Road?
Only three people were allowed to speak against, of the five whose hands went up.
The developer promised restrictive covenants enforced by nobody but the homeowners.
County-imposed conditions on the Nelson Hill development, also on Val Del, were largely waived by county staff without public hearings.
What promises should we believe?
Will the developer’s demand to ignore the Comprehensive Plan
because of “market conditions, supply and demand” prevail?
Do property values of neighbors not matter?
How about saddling the county school system with houses priced too low
for property taxes on them to cover expenses of sending school buses?
Or is profit for a few all that matters?
See the Continue reading
On the agenda for this morning,
a public hearing for a beer, wine, and liquor license for
Roy E. Taylor Sr.,
with merely “For Consideration” for
for beer and wine licenses for
Daniel K. Smith.
and
Kalpeshkumar B. Patel.
Also continuation of the
Solicitor-General's VOCA Continuation Grant
and
Bid on Two Motor Graders with Rome Sloper for Public Works.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
A
Val-Tech Road 16" Force Main Emergency Repair with
recommendation:
The 16” force main between Coleman Road lift station and James
Road has experienced repeated issues with pipe failure. Several
repairs have been made on one section near 3624 Val-Tech Road. After
detecting another pipe failure along this section staff recommends
we replace a 400′ section of the 16” force main. This is an
emergency and needs to happen ASAP to prevent a sewage spill. Staff
received a quote from RPI for $99,935.00. Staff recommends the
emergency repair be approved for $99,935.00 from RPI.
I think everyone would be in favor of fixing
that recurring leak,
near the green dot at the top of this map.
VALORGIS Map → Streams Waterbodies plus Utilities Service Areas and Lowndes County Sewer Line.
Plus
the annual
USGS Funding Agreement for Hwy 122 Stream Gauge,
on
the agenda
for this morning.
Also
appointments
to three boards,
as usual with no previous public invitation
to apply:
Linda Most reappointment to the
Lowndes County Library Board,
Clay Griner reappointment to the
Lowndes County Public Facilities Authority,
and
Jim Scruggs reappointment to the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals.
A
a subdivision rezoning:
The Settlement North, 5999 Val Del Road.
GLPC voted 5-2-1 against and of TRC only Engineering wanted approval,
with the rest saying:
Overall Planning and Zoning found this request inconsistent with
with the Comprehensive Plan. Utilities found that
development in that area is not supported by the County Water System
Growth Plan.
And
road abandonment,
and
quit claims
for another road.
LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSED AGENDA
WORK SESSION, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2018, 8:30 a.m.
REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor
The interesting part was not that
ZBOA
approved everything unanimously in its September 11, 2018 meeting,
including
setbacks
for the same Stovall property at
6002 N. Oak Street Ext., Valdosta, for which
later that same day
the Lowndes County Commission
approved removal of the prohibition on personal care homes.
The news is that Lowndes County Commissioner Scottie Orenstein
stood up in a public meeting and
spelled out
at 30 minutes 47 seconds that “there was some behind-the-scenes conversation”:
Scottie Orenstein, Lowndes County Commissioner.
In March 2015, there was a condition put on this.
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“You have an appointee information sheet in your packet,”
said County Manager Joe Pritchard, and that’s all we learned about
Michael Smith, who did not appear to speak, either,
at yesterday morning’s Work Session.
County Chairman Bill Slaughter did encourage the Commissioners
to send in information sheets on any other nominees they might come up with
for the Tourism Authority
before tonight’s 5:30 PM voting Regular Session.
He did not encourage the public to apply.
But if you want to, here is
the application form.
Also apparently
the Internet really is made of pipes.
It’s durious how the county
can help a private company with television (that was the longest item at just under 2 minutes)
but can’t use
its plethora of towers to help with citizen Internet access.
And the county
discussed in executive session buying real estate.
The whole meeting before that took just under 8 minutes.
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Why does the county leave us guessing and not just name who resigned,
and say who Michael Smith is?
Maybe they’ll say at the Lowndes County Commission Work Session this morning at 8:30 AM,
or maybe when they vote tomorrow at 5:30 PM.
“Mr. Michael Smith has expressed interest in being appointed to” the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Conference Center And Tourism Authority,
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The county held
a ceremony for departing Lowndes County Planner Jason Davenport.
I asked the person sitting in his former seat,
Engineering/Planning Technician Molly Stevenson,
if she was confirmed yet.
She would only say it was confirmed that she was sitting there right then.
They also had a
911 CALEA Re-Accreditation Presentation
and the Chairman recognized
Leadership Lowndes.
Citizens
Bob Harlan
and
Fred E. Blanton Jr
complained about road conditions.
I
thanked Utilities Director Steve Stalvey for sending
information about recent Lowndes County sewage spills (two in July),
and I thanked him advance for sending the NPDES-permit-required followup testing
(not yet received).
On
the REZ-2018-16 Stovall rezoning,
the applicant revealed the reason for the previous restriction
when Continue reading
