Tag Archives: Moody AFB

MAZ comparison table: TRC, Chamber, GLPC –Jason Davenport @ GLPC 2015-11-30

County Planner Jason Davenport sent email to the Planning Commission
yesterday noon before their evening meeting:

In light of the comments from the Chamber of Commerce from last week
related to TXT-2015-01 I have prepared a document that helps show the
amendments and various TRC and Chamber recommendations/comments side by
side. The amendments are overall organized into two groups, those that
are recommended for approval and have no objection and those that have
opposition and/or other comments. I will plan to provide physical
copies of the attached document at tonight’s meeting. Thank you.

Maybe this is a precedent for the county taking citizen comments more seriously;
one hopes it doesn’t apply only to the Chamber.

Here’s the table (PDF on LAKE website), Continue reading →

Valdosta packet items @ GLPC 2015-11-30

Within hours in response to an open records request she took over the telephone,

Valdosta City Clerk Teresa Bolden sent PDF of the packet materials for the
six Valdosta items for tonight’s GLPC meeting, at no charge,
including all the maps.
See below those six Valdosta items linked into a copy of

agenda:

a

funeral home,
a

radio station,
a

church accessory,
a

community commercial rezoning,
an

amendment to a Planned Development,
and

City of Valdosta sign regulations changes.

The change to the

Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant
remains invisible, because, since it’s in the

Lowndes County part of the agenda,
the City of Valdosta can’t divulge it.
The materials for the county

subdivision rezoning after the old US 41 N widening.
and the

Moody Activities Zones (MAZ) Text Amendments
are also linked into the agenda below.

-jsq

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission Continue reading →

MAZ, Tillman Crossing, Withlacoochee River WWTP, 7 * Valdosta @ GLPC 2015-11-30

An invisible change to Valdosta’s

Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Already

a subdivision rezoning after the old US 41 N widening.
And still going in its third year, the

Moody Activities Zones (MAZ) Text Amendments,

with

updates last week,
including
the Chamber’s latest position,
all on top of
the previous updates.
Those are just the

Lowndes County cases on the

agenda tonight for the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC).

The six
Valdosta cases
include
a

funeral home,
a

radio station,
a

church accessory,
a

community commercial rezoning,
an

amendment to a Planned Development,
and

City of Valdosta sign regulations changes.

All that plus Continue reading →

MAZ and Tillman Crossing Packet Updates @ GLPC Work 2015-11-23

Updates about Moody, Tillman Crossing, and the Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant,

for tonight’s Planning Commission meeting, received after last week’s GLPC Work Session.
I would post tonight’s GLPC agenda, but it’s not on the county’s website.

See the surprise addition in this update of

REZ-2015-20 City of Valdosta WWTP, about which details were not included: “The proposed site plan
is the same one that was presented to you with your paperwork last
night.”
So if you’re not a Planning Commissioner, you don’t get to see what the City of Valdosta is proposing for its new Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Another item is apparently known by several names: Continue reading →

Updated Packet for Moody Activitiy Zones (MAZ) @ GLPC Work 2015-11-23

Details of massive revisions to the proposal for changes to the Moody Activity Zoning Districts,

sent by County Planner Jason Davenport to the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) and the Lowndes County Commissioners on 11 November 2015,
in advance of the GLPC’s 23 November 2015 Work Session and 30 November 2015 Regular Session.
He copied LAKE due to an open records request from Gretchen Quarterman.
The whole thing is

on the LAKE website.

Especially interesting are two slides apparently intended to finally the question on everyone’s mind of which developers are these changes for?

Why are we here?

To improve the MAZ Regulations

2012 Rezoning Case & Text Amendment

County Leadership (Direction)(lnitial Goal June 2015)

County Planner (Implementation and Support)

Response to Continue reading →

Videos: Moody MAZ text amendments to ULDC back again @ LCC 2015-10-26

After the County Commission Work Session shown in these LAKE videos,
the Planning Commission met Monday evening,
and this evening (Tuesday 5:30PM) the County Commission votes,
but will table the

ULDC amendments.

In addition to all the other items
on

the agenda and mentioned in the previous post,
they went into an

Executive Session about Pending Litigation.
Who are they suing now?
Or who’s still suing them about for example James Road?

Here are links to the LAKE videos of yesterday morning’s meeting, followed by a video playlist.

1. Call to Order 4. Minutes for Approval Continue reading →

Moody MAZ text amendments to ULDC back again @ LCC Regular 2015-10-26

The Planning Commission meets Monday evening to consider

those ULDC amendments,

so county staff will recommend to the County Commission at their Monday 8:30 AM Work Session that they table the MAZ text changes
at their Regular Session Tuesday 5:30 PM evening.
Meanwhile,

the Air Force wants to maintain the road rights of way
for Davidson Road and along Grassy Pond.
And the
Land Bank Authority
wants to appoint some more members, acording to “the attached resolution”
which of course we the taxpayers aren’t allowed to see without an open records request.

Elected Probate Judge McDowell can appoint a part-time associate judge,
but she needs the county commission
to approve funding the salary.
The DA wants
to continue a Victims of Crime Act Victims Service grant.

Annual renewal of
health care service provider
and
Section 125 Plan Document.

Two more Lift Station (sewage) pumps, at
Val-Tech new for $20,076.42 and at
Whitewater repairs for $13,353.65.

Finally, bids for
Disaster Related Debris Removal Proposals required by FEMA, plus the usual beer, wine, and liquor licenses.

All that in Continue reading →

Videos: Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del @ ZBOA 2015-08-04

They meet again today 2:30 PM.

Last month,
ZBOA voted 5 to 1 to let

Moody Family Housing
have a reduction of 25% (half of the 50% they wanted)
so as to include a requirement of native trees.
Gretchen Quarterman made the motion, Paul Alvarado seconded, and Satrina Plyler (filling the unexpired term of Scott Orenstein) voted against.

See for more background.

Here’s

a video playlist:

Videos: Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del

Regular Session, Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA),

Video by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 August 2015.

-jsq

Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del @ ZBOA 2015-08-04

2:30 PM today,
should developers not have to follow code and put back trees
on the unnecessary and environmentally hazardous Moody Family Housing
on Val-Del Road?
You wouldn’t know who this was by a pretty name like
Azalea Commons,
or an acronym like
ACC Group III Housing,
and only the

board packet
mentions Balfour Beatty,
but it’s the same

Moody Family Housing
in an
aquifer recharge zone
that
already had a sinkhole
as admitted by
a K Street lawyer to the
Lowndes County Commission
and told to them and to the Air Force by VSU professors
that the Air Force proceeded to ignore in its
environmental assessment
and the Lowndes County Commission rezoned anyway.
Staff recommend 20% “relief” from planting trees.
How about the county get some relief from unnecessary sprawl?

They did provide

a table of the trees they want to cut down.

Here’s the agenda, which is not on the City of Valdosta website,
appearing here courtesy of Continue reading →

Videos: MAZ tabled, Naylor Boat Ramp and Sabal Trail CWTBH @ LCC 2015-07-28

The proposed MAZ changes were
tabled for 90 days,
they approved everything else, and

welcomed new Utilities Director Steve Stalvey again,
at the 5:30 PM Tuesday 28 July 2015 Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission.
Valdosta City Council

Sandra Tooley
didn’t fill out a form and so didn’t get to speak,
but

another citizen asked about the
Naylor Boat Ramp (answer after the meeting: on schedule for this fall)
and about Sabal Trail (answer: none).

On the LAKE front

Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange