Tag Archives: Planning

Why Vallotton wants to rezone back to agricultural @ GLPC 2015-03-30

Yesterday morning the County Planner seemed perplexed about

the Vallotton family request to go back to the most agricultural
zoning, E-A.
Yet he was there when Bill Langdale explained
that at the

Planning Commission 30 March 2015, aided by multiple Planning Commissioners,
plus a few words from me.

He didn’t bring agriculture to the city; the city come to him….

I think it’s going to be real hard one day trying to eat this concrete.

–Tommy Willis

See for yourself. And remember the County Commission votes on this case this evening at 5:30 PM; maybe you’d like to come speak for.
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Videos: Vallotton agriculture on Bemiss Road, historic preservation, personal services @ GLPC 2015-03-30

They took the
Lake Park personal services case
first and recommended it 8:0.

REZ-2015-06 Vickers was withdrawn by applicant.

Vallotton Farms‘ reversion to Estate Agricultural was recommended 8:0
after an explanation by attorney Bill Langdale (and yours truly chimed in).
Denser zoning for

Edward Jennings LLC
was recommended 5:4 with a rare example of the Chairman voting, this time in favor.
And the Valdosta historic preservation
LDR changes were recommended 8:0.
Those two Lowndes County cases have already been heard at the
Lowndes County Commission
Work Session yesterday morning
and will be voted on tonight at the Regular Session.
The Vallotton case greatly puzzled the County Planner and at least one of the Commissioners.

Here’s
the agenda, reordered according to how they actually considered the cases,
with links to the videos, results of the votes, and a few notes. Continue reading →

Return to agriculture, historic preservation, and personal services @ GLPC 2015-03-30

While

Vallotton Farms wants to revert to Estate Agricultural,

Vickers
and

Edward Jennings LLC want denser zoning.
It’s not clear what the
Valdosta historic preservation case
or the
Lake Park personal services case
are about, since the county still doesn’t publish board packets.
Note that Vallotton Farms (both the part outlined in red
that appears to be the subject of the rezoning and the bigger part west of Bemiss Road) is on Cherry Creek, upstream from the dam,
and upstream from Cherry Creek Sink on the
Withlacoochee River, which leaks into our drinking water in the Floridan Aquifer.
Better agriculture upstream from that than other possibilities.

Here’s
the agenda. Continue reading →

Videos: 1 commercial, 1 subdivision @ GLPC 2015-02-23

In the briefest Planning Commission meeting I can recall,
Stovall got her

rezoning of 5.84 acres to General Commercial on Oak Street Extension
recommended unanimously Monday 23 February 2015.
Ivy Gate subdivision’s second phase

to rezone 10.33 acres to R-10 on Cat Creek Road
at

4088 Cat Creek Road
was also recommended unanimously.
Nobody spoke for or against either rezoning,
and there was no discussion from Commissioners,
other than a recommendation by Commissioner Wildes that all lots
face interior roads for Ivy Gate.

After the rezonings,

Commissioners joked that with a meeting so brief they might catch
up with the County Commission.
County Chairman Bill Slaughter responded, “Actually, we just showed up
to show you how to run a quick meeting.”
The difference is GLPC actually does discuss when there’s something to discuss.
These cases will show up on the County Commission agenda for March 10th,
so we’ll see who takes longer on them then.

Here’s
the agenda,
and below are links to the videos, followed by a video playlist. Continue reading →

1 commercial, 1 subdivision @ GLPC 2015-02-23

Stovall wants

to rezone 5.84 acres to General Commercial on Oak Street Extension
and
Ivy Gate subdivision wants a second phase

to rezone 10.33 acres to R-10 on Cat Creek Road.
The existing Ivy Gate Subdivision is on Bowen Way.
The only nearby property on Cat Creek Road is

4088 Cat Creek Road, across the road,
owned by James Arthur Kutzli.

Thanks to Lowndes County for starting to

post Planning Commission agendas
including

this one.

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, February 23, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Videos: 1 church, 2 small, 1 subdivision @ GLPC 2015-01-26

Videos of the Planning Commission recommending Monday 26 January 2015.
The Central Avenue Church of Christ wants

to rezone 5.6 acres to Downtown Commercial,
while the two small rezonings are on

Old Pine Road
and

Skipper Bridge Road,
plus

Devine Subdivision
on Tillman Crossing.

See
the agenda.

Call to Order

Video.

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1 church, 2 small, 1 subdivision @ GLPC 2015-01-26

The Central Avenue Church of Christ wants

to rezone 5.6 acres to Downtown Commercial,
while the two small rezonings are on

Old Pine Road
and

Skipper Bridge Road,
plus

Devine Subdivision
on Tillman Crossing.
This meeting already happened tonight.

Thanks to Lowndes County for starting to

post Planning Commission agendas
including

this one. -jsq

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, January 26, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Videos: Lost Maps, New Vice, Lake Park R-P, Lowndes County C-G, Valdosta R-M @ GLPC 2014-11-24

Complete agenda? Maps? Election process? Calendar? But few people were there to notice these things missing.

At the Work Session we had all maps and things to show you,
but between then and now the digital copies have vanished
off of both laptops.
And we are sort of
at a loss as to where they went but they’re gone.
So if you’ll use the
maps that are in your packet and perhaps some memory from the Work Session discussion….

That’s right, staff lost the digital copies of an agenda item,

CU-2014-11 Normal Life of Georgia.
Board packets on the county’s website would serve as a backup
for copies on planners’ laptops.

Gretchen, who was there, reports further below, including
a note about that charming young white man recently appointed
to the Planning Commission. -jsq

At a brief and poorly attended GLPC meeting, Continue reading →

Lake Park R-P, Lowndes County C-G, Valdosta R-M @ GLPC 2014-11-24

Thanks to the City of Valdosta for the
agenda for tonight’s Planning Commission meeting.
It’s all small cases, but how would you know whether one of them
might affect you, since Lowndes County still doesn’t post Planning Commission
agendas or minutes or board packets?
And is there a second page?
If the county did post these agendas regularly on their own website,
this sort of omission would be less likely to occur.

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, November 24, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

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Valdosta’s Penn Station to be torn down –Alfred Willis @ VCC 2014-10-23

Received as a response to

Outside corporation trumps Valdosta citizens about historical Nichols house? –Jim Parker @ VCC 2014-10-23. -jsq

The City Council’s deliberations on the 23rd had nothing to do with
any construction project, but rather focused on the sale of a parcel
— as

Councilman Carroll’s message of the 25th accurately
conveys. The Council’s vote was historic because it signified openly
the supremacy of certain private property interests (specifically,
those entailed in selling as a form of enjoyment) over civic
cultural interests, at least within the municipality of Valdosta. In
doing so it gave Valdosta’s citizens a peek behind a curtain that
had remained drawn over historic preservation here since 1980. The
construction of buildings, the demolition of buildings, the
remodeling or moving of buildings, the maintenance and preservation
of buildings, their sale and their purchase, their adaptive reuse
— all of those processes are historical processes that turn on
the resolution of conflicts among interests. Thus they all reveal
structures of power and the machinations of powerful individuals and
groups. How could they not?

The construction of the Nichols house in
the early 1950s showed with a degree of clarity that probably no
other Valdosta building of that time did, the identity, values,
attitudes, and mode of operation of Valdosta’s leadership. Its
demolition will Continue reading →

On the LAKE front

Citizen dialog for transparent process by the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange