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Comprehensive Plan Update Workshop @ SGRC 2016-03-07

As promised, there is
an updated Work Book online, dated February 29, 2016.

Title page
As Ariel Godwin also promised, the SGRC website says:

The next workshop will be Monday, March 7, 2016, 5:00-7:00 p.m. at
the SGRC office, 327 W. Savannah Ave., Valdosta, GA.

It will be interesting to see if this version of the Work Book for the
2016 Greater Lowndes County Comprehensive Plan Update
contains any changes about the issues

Greg Odom raised last month (22 February 2016)
about road paving, trees, and reducing expense to the county.
And LAKE will be at the meeting with the video camera.

-jsq

Canopy roads, agriculture, materials? –Greg Odom about Comprehensive Plan Update @ SGRC 2016-02-22

So well attended there weren’t enough handouts,

as remarked on by Greg Odom,


who

later also said the proposed Comprehensive Plan Update didn’t have any plans for canopy roads, or roads on existing rights of way like in Virginia:
“For the past 25 years there has not been a healthy attitude
about people who want to maintain dirt roads.
There has been an attitude of let’s pave everything,
and let’s pave it in an outrageous way….”

Last night’s meeting was billed Continue reading →

Public Hearing, 2016 Comprehensive Plan Update @ SGRC 2016-01-19

Received Friday 5 January 2016:



Subject: Lowndes Comprehensive Plan Kickoff Jan. 19th

The kick-off public hearing for the joint Lowndes County and Cities of
Dasher, Hahira, Lake Park, Remerton, and Valdosta 2016 Comprehensive
Plan Update will be held on:

Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 5:30 p.m.

Lowndes County South Health District Administrative Office

325 W. Savannah Avenue

Valdosta, Georgia

The purpose of this public hearing will be Continue reading →

Videos: MAZ tabled + 2 small rezonings @ GLPC 2015-07-27



Once County Planner Jason Davenport admitted the
MAZ ULDC text amendments
weren’t ready (as he had indicated might happen at the same morning’s

County Commission Work Session),
and the Planning Commission recommended tabling it 4:1,
the meeting was very brief, even with the

SGRC Transportation presentation (which they weirdly heard after
adjourning the meeting, even though it was on the agenda).
The

David Brown Melody Lane rezoning
and the

Ron Borders Bemiss Road rezoning
flew through to 5:0 unanimous recommendations, with three Planning
Commissioners absent.

The

county rezoning
isn’t on the County Commission agenda yet,
and they will probably table the ULDC
MAZ item at its meeting 5:30 PM tonight.

See the Continue reading →

MAZ again + 2 small rezonings @ GLPC 2015-07-27

Planning Commission agenda is finally on county’s website


after this morning’s Lowndes County Commission Work Session,
which included

an item saying “The current public hearing/meeting timeline
is as follows: July 27th GLPC and July 28th LCBOC.”
Is it a public meeting if there’s no public agenda until a few hours before?

Yes, the notorious
TXT-2015-01 Moody Activity Zoning Districts (MAZ) ULDC text amendments
are back on

the GLPC agenda,
along with two small rezonings.
Plus
an SGRC Transportation presentation.

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, July 27, 2015 * 5:30 P.M. * Public Hearing

Continue reading →

Live Oak bus service starts Monday 2015-07-20

How come Live Oak (pop. 6,974) in Suwannee County (43,734), Florida can do


what mighty Valdosta (56,481) in Lowndes County (112,916), Georgia can’t?

Amber Vann, Suwannee Democrat, 17 July 2015,

Live Oak bus route starts Monday,

The Suwannee Valley Transit Authority’s Live Oak bus route will
begin operating on Monday, July 20, running continuously from 7 a.m.
until 7 p.m. throughout every direction of the city, Monday through
Friday. The route’s unofficial stops include apartment complexes and
other residential neighborhoods, public schools, grocery stores,
parks, government offices, nursing homes, the library and the
hospital.

The route starts at the intersection of Walker Avenue and US 90 West Continue reading →

VLMPO Public Open House on 2040 Transportation Vision Plan 2015-07-22

Anytime all day, 10AM to 6PM, Wednesday July 22nd, you can advise
SGRC on transportation for the region,
at the VLMPO office at 327 W Savannah Ave, Valdosta, Georgia 31601.


Here’s

VLMPO’s facebook event.

According to SGRC’s

Transportation Planning web page:

2040 Transportation Vision Plan… Public Comment Period July 7-August 7, 2015

Federal regulations require Metropolitan Planning Organizations
(MPOs) to develop a new Long Range Transportation Plan at least
every five years. In the summer of 2013, the VLMPO kicked-off the
latest effort to plan for a multi-modal transportation system
through the region for the year 2040. The plan will address:

Continue reading →

Transportation explained to Lowndes County Commission @ LCC 2015-07-13

The county asked SGRC a bunch of questions about the $15,957 public transit and trucking studies at yesterday morning’s Work Session that
they didn’t ask about the $16,915 they spent
two weeks ago to upgrade a water main to subsize a developer.
Commissioners seemed to think VLMPO hadn’t involved them in planning
the study proposals, when in fact their own Chairman and County Manager
and Engineer had been involved all along, plus five county-appointed
citizens.


300x225 Corey Hull, in Public Transportation and Trucking Studies Explained, by Gretchen Quarterman, 13 July 2015
County Manager Joe Pritchard said Commissioner Joyce Evans and
Chairman Bill Slaughter had asked him to get the Southern Georgia Regional
Commission (SGRC) to explain its proposed transportation studies.
He also introduced Lisa Crib, whom he said was the new SGRC Executive Director.

Corey Hull spoke for SGRC, saying he first wanted to know their questions.
Chairman Bill Slaughter asked: Continue reading →

Videos: Budget Work Session @ LCC Budget 2015-05-18



“Once you put in your transfers in and out, you have a balanced budget,”
said Finance Director Stephanie Black.
Transfers in from where?
How does this magic work?

Even the Commissioners had no agenda to look at,
although they did have printed copies of the draft budget,
which the public could only see as it scrolled by on the screen
at yesterday morning’s Lowndes County Commission Budget Work Session,
which was over by 10AM even though it was announced as 8:30AM to 5PM.
However, it is good that they had this Work Session in public.

County Clerk Paige Dukes told Gretchen afterwards that no draft
budget would be available to the public until after two changes
requested by the Chairman were incorporated.
She did not say when that would be finished or when the draft budget would be
available so taxpayers could comment.
She did refer people to
last year’s budget.
The slides that
Finance Director Stephanie Black presented do provide an interesting high level overview.
Other than Commissioners and very few staff,
the only people in the room were VDT reporter Joe Adgie, someone unidentified,
and Gretchen taking these LAKE videos so you can see what happened. Continue reading →

Videos: Regional water council meeting in Valdosta @ SSRWPC 2014-05-21



Anticipating water and wastewater needs,
coordinating with Florida and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
comparing water usage to available resources in the face of droughts,
floods, and climate change,
Georgia’s regional water management council for this area
considered all this and more when it met
in Valdosta to finalize a document:
Regional Assessment of Implementation Status.
Here are videos of the whole meeting.