Tag Archives: Planning

Videos: Hahira rezoning and annexation, two Valdosta CUP @ GLPC 2014-04-28



Tabled at applicant’s request:
the Hahira
rezoning
and
annexation;
see also the

Lowndes County Commission letter of objection of 22 April 2014.
The proponents
to establish a recycling center
didn’t show up to answer questions, and due to lack of information
(noise, hours, odors, vermin, expansion, etc.), GLPC unanimously voted to recommend tabling.
GLPC voted to recommend approval with selected conditions for
Langdale Ford’s
minor automotive repair facility.

Remember, Lowndes County answered an open records request for the agenda

47 hours after this Planning Commission meeting started.
Here’s

the actual agenda by other means.

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, April 28, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Here are videos of what GLPC did. Continue reading →

Agriculture, Tower, and Nelson Hills @ GLPC 2014-06-30



Twelve acres requested to rezone

to agricultural
and

“an amendment to the zoning conditions”
for the
Nelson Hills Subdivision; the same one that previously

got waivers from county staff with no public hearing.
People might think that’s why the county didn’t want anybody to see this agenda.

After

no electronic copy was available,
Gretchen photographed a paper copy of the agenda,
which I’ve OCRed.
She heard that one item was withdrawn and another was requested
to be tabled for 30 days. We’ll see.

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


Tuesday, June 30, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Continue reading →

No agenda and few cases @ GLPC 2014-06-30



The Planning Commission meets tonight, we hear with no cases other than
two for Lowndes County, one of which may be tabled.
No agenda is available to the public, unless you show up in person 5:30 PM tonight at 325 W savannah Ave., Valdosta, GA.

-jsq

Videos: Against Hahira annexation, for 2 county and 4 Valdosta @ GLPC 2014-05-27



Almost unanimous against the

Hahira
rezoning
and
annexation,
even though the
reduction from 66.1 to 58.09 acres
was to exclude Hagen Bridge Road and obviate the
paving issue.
A

county ULDC amendment request for Special Events and such
and a Valdosta

LDR amendment request.
A

county
rezoning

to agricultural
and
three

Valdosta
use changes:

daycare,


fraternity,
and

commercial office.

Here’s

the agenda, with some notes and links to the videos.

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


Tuesday, May 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Continue reading →

Hahira annexation again, two county, and four Valdosta w. Phi Sigma Kappa @ GLPC 2014-05-27



Return of the

Hahira
rezoning
and
annexation,
down from 66.1 to as 58.09 acres,
even after the

Lowndes County Commission letter of objection of 22 April 2014,
and on Tuesday next week, same time as the County Commission meeting.
A

ULDC amendment request for Special Events and such
and an

LDR amendment request for unspecified reasons.
A

county
rezoning

to agricultural
and
three

Valdosta
use changes:

daycare,


fraternity,
and

commercial office.

Here’s the agenda, which arrived as a PDF actually convertable to text!

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


Tuesday, May 27, 2014* 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Continue reading →

Study before Levee –Tim Carroll @ VCC 2014-05-06

Comment

on facebook 10 May 2014 and he told me the same by telephone.

It is clear a full watershed wide study must be completed before any
decisions can be made.


As established in this first study—The
City of Valdosta is the recipient-not the origin- of the flood
waters. While it confirms what we already knew, my job is to try and
keep the ball rolling forward. Engage congressional leaders, secure
funding and find long term, sustainable solutions that benefit all
communities within the watershed basin. A levee by itself is not the
answer.

–Tim Carroll

This was a comment on Continue reading →

No to Brookhaven rezoning @ Lake Park 2014-05-06



After

the Planning Commission meeting of 31 March 2014
and

the Lake Park City Council meeting of 1 April 2014,
and

a special public hearing,
the Lake Park City Council

voted 3 to 1 to deny the Brookhaven apartment building
rezoning.

Mayor Eric Schindler’s statement about how the hornet’s nest
of the Brookhaven rezoning LP-2014-02-26, or any rezoning,

is a process and not a snap decision
is well worth watching.

The City of Lake Park does not appear to have posted an agenda,
or at least where I expected to find it
there are no details.
Below are links to the videos in the order items appeared at the Lake Park City Council Regular Session of May 6th 2014, with a few notes.

Continue reading →

Follow the law and be aware what the citizens want –Judge Ellerbee @ Lake Park 2014-04-28



Apartments are expensive to local governments, developers don’t sue
unless there is actual discrimination (which there isn’t in this case),
water use is a big issue,
and the primary responsibility of elected officials is to the citizens
who elect them:
Judge Wayne Ellerbee made these and other points relevant to many
rezoning requests as he spoke for some of the opponents at
the

Lake Park Brookhaven rezoning.

He pointing out that the question before the Lake Park City Council was
the rezoning,
but the developers needed to take into account the effects on the
entire city of Lake Park.
He mentioned studies from the University of Georgia
saying that the most expensive zoning Continue reading →

Citizens, lawyers, and developers @ Lake Park 2014-04-28



“A molehill to cover up an eyesore” pretty much summed up the neighbors’
opinions.
Some of the usual local lawyers seemed surprised at the number
and sophistication of the rezoning opponents, as you can see in
these videos of the public hearing for the

Brookhaven apartment building proposed rezoning.
The Lake Park City Council took its duties to its citizens seriously,
holding a separate zoning meeting just for this one subject.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Citizens, lawyers, and developers

Rezoning Public Hearing, Lake Park City Council (Lake Park),

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

Lake Park, Lowndes County, Georgia, 28 April 2014.

Attorney Tom Kurrie’s apparent

suggestion that the neighbors wanted to discriminate against
the elderly and children Continue reading →

Opaque Planning Commission agenda from Lowndes County @ GLPC 2014-04-28



Just in case it might work, I sent an Open Records Request to the
Lowndes County Clerk before Monday’s Planning Commission meeting.
The result just arrived, two days later, 47 hours after the meeting started.

It is in electronic form, as I requested, but it’s a
PDF of a scanned
image, so turning it into HTML would require OCRing it or transcribing it,
unlike
the real PDF I got by another means before the meeting
and posted Monday.
If the agendas and minutes for the Planning Commission were posted
on the web like the Lowndes County Commissions own agendas
and minutes already are, this problem wouldn’t arise,
and there would also be less work for county staff.

-jsq