Tag Archives: Old US 41

Videos: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Update 2024-04-10:
Packet: Hospital Authority appointment, 6 rezonings, paving and resurfacing, subdivision infrastructure, probationers @ LCC 2024-05-13.

For an hour and 42 minutes the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission
discussed and recommended for or against eight rezoning cases.

Two Lowndes County Commissioners attended:
Scottie Orenstein and Joyce Evans.
The Lowndes County Commission will hear these cases this week,
or so we assume, since they have no agenda posted yet.

At the Planning Commission, nobody spoke against most of the cases on the agenda, and the Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of those,
sometimes with conditions.

Only two cases were very slightly controversial.


[Collage @ LCC 29 April 2024]

Collage @ LCC 29 April 2024

Clint Joyner said, “I’m telling you, Continue reading →

Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Update 2024-05-10:
Videos: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29.

The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) will be busy this evening,
maybe with a packed audience,
to review eight rezoning cases.


[Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29]

Packet: 6 Lowndes County cases, 1 Lake Park, 1 Valdosta @ GLPC 2024-04-29

Considering waterways, these cases seem unremarkable.

The Lake Park

W. Marion Ave. rezoning is near Long Pond, but not on it.

The
Valdosta
Williams Street rezoning apparently drains into One Mile Branch, which goes into Sugar Creek and the Withlacoochee River, but is not very near that creek.

The
Skipper Bridge Road rezoning near Franklinville Road
is uphill from the Withlacoochee River, but not near to it.
This is the one case with no utilities, but it is for a single house.

The
River Road rezoning backs up onto Pebble Creek, which runs into Crawford Branch into the Withlacoochee River,
but that area is recognized as wetlands on the plat, with a detention pond.

The
Dasher Grove Road and Val Del Road rezoning
includes two creeks that run into Sermons Branch, into the Withlacoochee River, but at least they are recognized as wetlands and avoided in the conceptual plan.

The
Old US 41 rezoning is near Sermons Branch, which runs into the Withlacoochee River.

The
Whitewater Road rezoning
is near creeks that end up in the Withlacoochee River.

The
Carter Lane rezoning is at the top of
Caney Branch, which runs into Enoch Creek, the Alapahoochee River, and the Alapaha River.

Here is the

agenda.

The board packet, received in response to a LAKE open records request, is
on the LAKE website.


Greater Lowndes Planning Commission


~ Lowndes County ~ City of Valdosta ~ City of Dasher ~

~ City of Hahira ~ City of Lake Park ~ City of Remerton ~

Monday, April 22, 2024 5:30 P.M. Work Session

Monday, April 29, 2024 5:30 P.M. Regular Session

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue, Valdosta, Georgia

Continue reading →

Public Facilities Autority, 2 rezonings, 2 GDOT agreements, Juvenile Justice, 3 road widenings, Hahira extraterritorial water @ LCC 2021-05-10

Almost eight million dollars, mostly for road projects,
presumably approved by the Lowndes County Commission at their meeting yesterday.

[Union Station on Union Road, borrow pit off Lake Alapaha Blvd.]

Union Station on Union Road, borrow pit off Lake Alapaha Blvd.

Cost What
$4,931,029.15 Old US 41 Widening Project
$1,669,478.88 GDOT Standard Utility Agreement, Lake Park Bellville Road
$314,776.00 Bid for a Loader for Public Works
$300,000.00 Borrow Pit Agreement
$250,172.09 Change Order For Old US 41 Widening Project
$172,637.00 GDOT Standard Contract Agreement Exit 11
$165,427.00 FY 2022 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Application
$58,673.47 Turn Lane Project for Cat Creek Road and River Road
$13,000.00 Bid for Annual Coffee Service for County Buildings
$7,875,193.59 Total

The Union Station rezoning on Union Road continues to have complications, this time
Hahira Extraterritorial Extension of Water Service.

[Conceptual Layout for Union Station on Union Road]

Conceptual Layout for Union Station on Union Road

PDF

The water body in the aerial for the
Borrow Pit Agreement is not the Alapaha River. Continue reading →

Video: New County Planner, Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12

Video has appeared on lowndescounty.com of the May 12, 2020 Regular Session,
and the minutes.
It is 11:48 long, of which 10:48 was actual business.
The video reveals

there is a new County Planner,
J.D. Dillard.
We also learn from the video (but not from the minutes)
the extent of the Old US 41 widening.


Lowndes County Commission Regular Session 2020-05-12

Below are a few notes with timestamp links into the county’s video.
See also the
agenda
and the
board packet.
Here again is what they said they spent:

Cost What
$330,854 CJCC Funding FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Application Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020
$20,000.00 FEMA Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation Request for Proposal Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020
$350,854 Total

LOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

PROPOSED AGENDA

REGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, May 12, 2020, 5:30 p.m.

327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor


*To comply with the guidelines of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in regard to the Coronavirus (COVID19) pandemic and social distancing, face coverings (masks) are required for all meeting participants.

  1. Call to Order

    At 0 minutes.
    Chairman and all five Commissioners were present and sitting up front.
    Staff, including the County Manager, were sitting in the audience,
    where they could hardly be heard when they spoke.
    Portable microphones would be useful for this arrangement. Continue reading →

Packet: Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12

Update 2020-06-05: Lowndes County video has appeared, revealing several things not in the minutes.

LAKE did not video the May 12, 2020, Regular Session of the Lowndes County Commission, due to pandemic.
There was no telephone dial-in and no facebook live.
The last Lowndes County Commission video of its own meeting was February 25, 2020.
So the only record will be the Minutes, which we may or may not see before their next meeting, which is this Tuesday.

We get a location map but no indication of future county tax-paid costs of upkeep for the
infrastructure for Two Oaks at Bemiss.

[Location Map]

Location Map

Yet we get evaluations by three different people of three proposals for the
Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation RFP; winning bid $20,000.

The packet contains only the agenda sheet and a signature page for a resolution for the GDOT TIA Old US 41 Widening;
the actual Resolution is missing. Continue reading →

Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12

Update 2020-06-05: Lowndes County video has appeared, revealing several things not in the minutes.

Update 2020-05-23:
Packet: Juvenile Justice, TIA Old US 41, Two Oaks at Bemiss, Hazard Mitigation @ LCC 2020-05-12.
There are no videos.

The lightest agenda for Tuesday’s Lowndes County Commission Regular Session that I’ve seen in a while will be voted on Tuesday
in the Commission Chambers with masks.
No teleconference.
Presumably the County will be videoing and putting that on YouTube,
as they usually do with Regular Sessions.
There is no Work Session.

Also less expensive than most Commission meetings:

Cost What
$330,854 CJCC Funding FY 2021 Juvenile Justice Incentive Grant Application Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020
$20,000.00 FEMA Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation Request for Proposal Regular Session DATE OF MEETING: May 12, 2020
$350,854 Total

Even on the least expensive item this time,
Lowndes County Hazard Mitigation Request for Proposal,
“Lowndes County recently requested pricing proposals from qualified contractors…”
The RFP is on the county’s website.

Unlike the more expensive stream monitoring project of last month’s meeting, for which there was no RFP and no bids.

This item has no cost cited, but will cost the taxpayers for road maintenance in the future:
Adopt Resolution accepting Infrastructure for Two Oaks at Bemiss.

[Case Point (Two Oaks at Bemiss)]

Case Point (Two Oaks at Bemiss)

Map:
Lowndes County Tax Assessors

All the

agenda sheet says for where is “located on Case Point, off Old Pine Road.”
I’m guessing that includes Continue reading →

Videos: slightly larger: The Settlement North on Val Del Road @ LCC 2018-12-11

In their one December 2018 Regular Session,
they couldn’t bring themselves to reject a rezoning, but
they did require still larger lot sizes, for

the Val Del Road rezoning.


That was the most elaborate series of motions I’ve seen on anything
in the dozen years I’ve been following the Lowndes County Commission.
It even exceeds the time somebody tried to rezone next to my west field
and they denied that one by not voting.

Nothing else took more than a few minutes.
The County Manager

asked for an emergency to Continue reading →

Videos: The Settlement North on Val Del Road back again @ LCC 2018-12-10

Molly Stevenson, Engineering/Planning Technician,
reminded Commissioners that the main reason for the Val Del Road
rezoning
is to be able to subdivide at a greater density.
Then she recited the reasons to deny it.


Chairman Bill Slaughter reminded Commissioners they’d tabled it twice, and
“I’d very much like to get this resolved at this meeting.”
By which he meant the Regular Session this evening at 5:30 PM,
not the Work Session yesterday morning at which he said that.
At least one Commissioner

had a question.

The second longest item was

6 m. Approval of the 2019 Commission Meeting Calendar,
because of two questions by Commissioners.

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also Continue reading →

Back again: The Settlement North on Val Del Road @ LCC 2018-12-10

The agenda sheet says “the applicant’s conceptual site plan is attached.”
But of course we the taxpaying, traffic-affected, and water-drinking public don’t get to see it.

Why the Lowndes County Commission considering rezoning for a subdivision
that its own staff says doesn’t fit the Comprehensive Plan Character Area,
is outside the Urban Service Area, would add significant traffic, and many neighbors spoke against it, plus the Planning Commission recommended denial?
The Commission tabled in October, and again in November, when
Commissioners asked for an update, but now staff says, “There are no updates to the overall case status.”

If they can’t deny this one, what rezoning can they ever deny?


Current Zoning Map, REZ-2018-17

Photo: Still by LAKE from Lowndes County Commission video of its
9 Oct 2018 Regular Session.

Here is the agenda.
See also Continue reading →

Videos: Cothron on Tucker Road and second West Ridge Business Park rezoning @ GLPC 2017-11-27



Twenty five minutes on

7. REZ-2017-14 Cothron 5310 Tucker Road 5 acres from E-A to R-A
to split out two 2.5 acre house lots and a home business office
(is there a deed restriction?),
fourteen minutes on a storage building in

3. VA-2017-16 220-224 Myddleton Road 0.58 acres from R-6 to M-2
(probably will be at ZBOA for a variance later),
and six minutes each on

5. REZ-2017-12 West Ridge Business Park 1.2 acres from C-G to C-H
and

4. VA-2017-17 City of Valdosta LDR text amendments.
Everything else sailed through.

They

nominated
the same Chair and Vice-Chair as currently:
Franklin Bailey and Jody Hall.
County Planner Jason Davenport pointed out traditionally they
rotate every two years, but the Commission could decide to keep the same
officers, and they did.

Below are links to each LAKE video with a few notes,
followed by a LAKE video playlist.
See also
the agenda. Continue reading →