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Letting the foxes in the DNR henhouse —Katherine Helms Cummings

Guess who thinks letting regulated corporations contribute to the
natural resources regulatory agency is a good idea?

Received yesterday on

Stop Georgia Power from stopping you from affording solar. -jsq

And if GA Power having control over the grid here isn’t bad enough,
now the General Assembly is considering letting DNR ask for donations
from the corporations they issue permits to, and then enforce.

-Katherine Helms Cummings

She linked to this post on her blog,

HB 887 gives corporate foxes the key to the hen house,

I have a hard time believing that the DNR is going to hold a bake sale
to protect the rivers and streams of our state. Some House leaders,
including Judy Manning (R-Marietta) and Debbie Buckner (D-Junction City)
have said they are uneasy with HB 887. Rightly so.

OK, so who thinks it’s a good idea?

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Condos and Agricultural Zoning: latest redraft of ULDC update

Jason Davenport, County Planner, has produced another redraft of the

proposed changes to the Lowndes County, Georgia Unified Land Devleopment Code (ULDC).
Here is his cover letter
and here is the PDF of the proposed changes.
Here’s the first table again:

During yesterday’s 3PM work session, Commissioner Lee asked the County Planner

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ULDC Update Redraft for Monday’s Planning Commission

The Technical Review Committee (TRC) has reviewed the

ULDC update
and has produced a

final draft
for the Planning Commission, which meets

Monday 25 October 2010 at 5:30 PM, still

at the old county commission chambers at 325 W. Savannah Avenue.

More
here about condominiums.

-jsq


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What is a Condominium?



Regarding

condominiums and zoning
in the Lowndes County ULDC,

Georgia condominium law
basically says that zoning
can’t deny condos if some other form of ownership is permitted.
If there’s a five acre minimum, only one condo unit could fit
in that five acres, but with community membership
with the other condos on the associated property..
For example, on an 18 acre piece of property,
the maximum number of units would be 3 or 4.

Of course, a condominium doesn’t have to be a dwelling unit.
As

Gary Stock points out
The key feature is joint ownership:

“A condominium is not a building. It is a form of ownership.”

it could be a horse farm, a hunting camp, a fishing club, or other.
There usually needs to be a general common area, then some limited
common areas with building envelopes for condo unit owners to use
to build buildings (or maybe buildings are already there).
The catch is that because a condominium is all one piece of property
jointly owned, drawing limited common areas and building envelopes
doesn’t require zoning approval.

Appended is one of the more

relevant sections of the Georgia code.

-jsq

ยง 44-3-114. Effect of article upon land use, zoning, building, and
subdivision laws; effect of Code Section 44-3-92; applicability of land
use and zoning ordinances or laws to expandable condominium

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