Tag Archives: Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Videos: Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del @ ZBOA 2015-08-04

They meet again today 2:30 PM.



Last month,
ZBOA voted 5 to 1 to let

Moody Family Housing
have a reduction of 25% (half of the 50% they wanted)
so as to include a requirement of native trees.
Gretchen Quarterman made the motion, Paul Alvarado seconded, and Satrina Plyler (filling the unexpired term of Scott Orenstein) voted against.

See for more background.

Here’s

a video playlist:



Videos: Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del

Regular Session, Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBOA),

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

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 4 August 2015.

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Moody Family Housing doesn’t want to replace trees it cut down on Val-Del @ ZBOA 2015-08-04



2:30 PM today,
should developers not have to follow code and put back trees
on the unnecessary and environmentally hazardous Moody Family Housing
on Val-Del Road?
You wouldn’t know who this was by a pretty name like
Azalea Commons,
or an acronym like
ACC Group III Housing,
and only the

board packet
mentions Balfour Beatty,
but it’s the same

Moody Family Housing
in an
aquifer recharge zone
that
already had a sinkhole
as admitted by
a K Street lawyer to the
Lowndes County Commission
and told to them and to the Air Force by VSU professors
that the Air Force proceeded to ignore in its
environmental assessment
and the Lowndes County Commission rezoned anyway.
Staff recommend 20% “relief” from planting trees.
How about the county get some relief from unnecessary sprawl?



They did provide

a table of the trees they want to cut down.

Here’s the agenda, which is not on the City of Valdosta website,
appearing here courtesy of Continue reading →

Videos: Building and billboard locations @ ZBOA 2015-06-02



June 2nd 2015, ZBOA approved

Fairway’s new billboard request,
and

building location variance for Gloryhill Cowboy Church, both unanimously, 6-0.
They meet again today at 2:30 PM (they didn’t meet in July).

They

welcomed new ZBOA member,
John Hogan III,
who ran for Valdosta City Council in 2015,
appointed to ZBOA by that Council 7 May 2015.
Laverne Gaskins declined to be reappointed.

Here’s

the agenda, from the
City of Valdosta

website,
followed by the video. Continue reading →

Building and billboard locations @ ZBOA 2015-06-02



Today at 2:30 PM,

Fairway is back with a new billboard request.
Also in the county, a

building location variance.
Since
Laverne Gaskins declined to be reappointed,
there’s a new ZBOA member.
John Hogan III, who ran for Valdosta City Council in 2015,
was appointed to ZBOA by that Council 7 May 2015. Continue reading →

Videos: Billboard and building locations @ ZBOA 2015-05-05



Last month,
Unscheduled:
Laverne Gaskins announced she did not want to be reappointed to ZBOA.
Fairway got to put its

billboard
back up at the new overpass, but only at 50 feet high.
Plus in the county, a

building location variance
and a

Family Ties variance
were both approved unanimously.
They meet again today at 2:30PM. Continue reading →

Videos: Baseball and water; electric sign withdrawn @ ZBOA 2015-04-07



They’re meeting again today, and last month
the

baseball diamond west of Hahira was approved with conditions 4-1.
The water connection variance on

Jumping Gully Road,
was approved 5-0,
and the electric company parking variance on

Norman Drive, tabled
the previous month,
was withdrawn by applicant (before the meeting),
all according to

ZBOA’s own Summary of Results.

See also

the agenda for the 7 April 2015 Zoning Board of Appeals meeting.
Here’s

the LAKE video of the meeting:

Continue reading →

Billboard and building locations @ ZBOA 2015-05-05



Today at 2:30 PM, Fairway wants to put its billboard back up at the new overpass:
way up.
Will ZBOA approve a

60-foot-high billboard?
Plus in the county, a

building location variance
and a

Family Ties variance.

Here’s

the agenda, from the
City of Valdosta

website.


Valdosta-Lowndes County Zoning Board of Appeals

Matt Martin, Valdosta Planning and Zoning Administrator

300 North Lee Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 259-3563

Carmella Braswell, Lowndes County Zoning Administrator

327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia

(229) 671-2430

AGENDA

May 5, 2015

2:30 p.m.

Continue reading →

Baseball and water; electric sign withdrawn @ ZBOA 2015-04-07



Today at 2:30 PM, the owner of the

baseball diamond west of Hahira is not expected to appear, because he’s working.
If you want to see him, try

Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York, tomorrow evening.
There’s a water connection variance on

Jumping Gully Road,
and the electric company parking variance on

Norman Drive in Valdosta tabled
last month
has been withdrawn.

Here’s the agenda, which oddly is not yet on the
City of Valdosta

website. Continue reading →

Videos: Goodwyne and Subaru and Williams Signs @ ZBOA 2015-03-03



Videos of ZBOA decisions on
one

single-family residence and a

car dealership sign in the county,
and

an electric company sign parking variance in the city.
They meet again this afternoon.

Here’s the agenda, with decisions, followed by the videos. Continue reading →

Videos: Denied Lake Alapaha variance @ ZBOA 2015-02-03



The variance about not connecting to county water
at Lake Alapaha Blvd. seemed to actually involve adjoining property,
as several Commissioners pointed out,
and ZBOA denied it, 4 to 3.
Zoning Director Carmella Braswell represented the county as usual.

Here’s

the agenda, which now is on the
City of Valdosta

website
as

http://www.valdostacity.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=7948,
after Board member Gretchen Quarterman asked for agendas to be posted up to date.

Scroll down below for the video. Continue reading →