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Heavy Manufacturing rezoning on special called Planning Commission agenda @ GLPC Special 2016-01-05

Update 7:30 PM 5 Jan 2016:
The land is owned by Langdale, and why not Bassford Business Park.

Henry Manufacturing (the one in Oregon? Decatur, GA?)
on the

agenda
for a Special Called Meeting
of the Planning Commission,
just announced today, for 5:30 PM today.
Apparently the Development Authority thinks it’s landed a big fish
and wants a rezoning for it.
Which 134 acres on Rocky Ford Road is not clear:
there’s no such size tract according to the Tax Assessors’ map.

All the large tracts are owned either by Langdale Company or a Langdale
investment corporation.
Or it could be out of the 219.99 acre tract owned by

the Paine Clarence M. Family Trust
or the 187.76 acre tract owned by Griffin LLC.
As usual, we the taxpayers are left guessing.
Tonight at 5:30 PM maybe we’ll find out.
-jsq Continue reading →

Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant packet materials @ GLPC 2015-11-30

The mysterious missing materials from Monday’s Planning Commission meeting
are
on the LAKE website now,
thanks to Lowndes County Planner Jason Davenport, by electronic mail today, 3 December 2015.

He explained that this requested zoning, REZ-2015-20, was a followon to
rezoning
REZ-2010-15 from 2010 for the new Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant, plus since then Valdosta had bought another adjoining parcel.
The materials explain the current concerns about buffers, setbacks, roads, other uses, noise, lights, etc.; see
the text pages.
The County Planner said the packet for next week’s County Commission meetings
will also include an agenda item cover sheet.

For all the other packet items from Monday’s GLPC meeting, see
the previous post.
See also

the related variance VAR-2015-16
that was before the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA) Tuesday.

Here’s the beginning of the overview from the GLPC materials:

The main reason for this request is the current conditional
requirement of a bermed buffer along the norther boundary of the
subject property. Right now if the previously approved conditions
(Attached toward the end of the packet), approved site plan
(Attached . . ,), and ULDC are combined it looks like what is
currently required to be constructed is Continue reading →

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

Still invisible: the change to Valdosta’s

Withlacoochee River Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Documents related to all the other items are

inked into the agenda in a previous post.

Moody AFB speaking about proposed Lowndes County MAZ ULDC text amendments

Continue reading →

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 →

Lake Park dwelling in commercial zone, 4 Valdosta, 4 County @ GLPC 2015-09-28

I’d guess the Lake Park case will breeze through tonight.
The cases are more complicated, a couple with multiple parcels,
and the
Lowndes County cases are all big: 18-43 acres.
Here’s the

GLPC agenda
that appeared on the county’s website Friday without anybody having to ask!

Greater Lowndes Planning Commission

Lowndes County City of Valdosta City of Dasher City of Hahira City of Lake Park

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

AGENDA

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 West Savannah Avenue

Monday, September 28, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Videos: 3 small rezonings: Dasher, Lowndes, Valdosta @ GLPC 2015-08-31

Vice-Chair Jody Hall presided,
sounding like he’d been practicing and it paid off at the 31 August 2015 Planning Commission meeting.

Nobody spoke for or against the

agricultural rezoning
in Lowndes County and the Planning Commission recommended it,
but it may be more controversial than it looks now that

the Lowndes County Commission agenda item and packet for Tuesday
indicates it’s apparently related to that

$16,915 the county agreed to pay to upgrade a water line near the
Lake Alapaha subdivision.

The owner spoke for the

automobile repair shop
in Dasher with nobody against,
and it was unanimously recommended.

Nobody spoke against

the office rezoning
in Valdosta. There was some Commissioner discussion of nearby neighborhoods.
It was recommended 6-2 for R-15.

Here’s

GLPC agenda,
with links the the LAKE videos below, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

On the LAKE front

Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange