{"id":10036,"date":"2014-09-06T07:04:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2014-09-06T07:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T11:57:19","slug":"what-are-rez-2014-15-and-hahiras-extraterritorial-request-lcc-2014-09-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/what-are-rez-2014-15-and-hahiras-extraterritorial-request-lcc-2014-09-08.html","title":{"rendered":"What are REZ-2014-15 and Hahira’s Extraterritorial Request? @ LCC 2014-09-08"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n\"300x268<\/a>\r\n\r\nPublic hearings with no details: how is the public to know to show up?\r\nWhy no description at all for\r\n\r\n“Rezoning case REZ-2014-15”<\/a>?\r\nAnd no identifying number for\r\n\r\nthe next case<\/a>?\r\nAnd why the extra obscurity about\r\n\r\n“Hahira’s Extraterritorial Request”<\/a>?\r\nThis agenda<\/a> goes beyond brief into opaque.\r\nLAKE can answer two of these questions because Gretchen went to the\r\nPlanning Commission meeting and photographed that agenda that\r\nLowndes County refuses to even publish.\r\nBut why should the taxpayers be left guessing about what their\r\nonly elected county-wide government is doing?\r\n

\r\nAlso two appointments: the Planning Commission’s recommendation\r\n\r\nto replace its departing young black woman member with an old white man<\/a>\r\nand\r\nsomebody unnamed to the\r\n\r\nGeorgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities<\/a>\r\nPlus the annual renewal of\r\n\r\nhiring prisoners from Valdosta State Prison<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nLOWNDES COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS \r\n
\r\nPROPOSED AGENDA \r\n
\r\nWORK SESSION, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2014, 8:30 a.m. \r\n
\r\nREGULAR SESSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014, 5:30 p.m. \r\n
\r\n327 N. Ashley Street \u2013 2nd<\/sup><\/small> Floor \r\n
\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
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    \r\n
  1. \r\n\r\nCall to Order<\/a>\r\n
  2. \r\n\r\nInvocation<\/a>\r\n

    \r\nOnly in the Regular Session, 5:30 PM Tuesday.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

  3. \r\n\r\nPledge of Allegiance to the Flag<\/a>\r\n

    \r\nOnly in the Regular Session, 5:30 PM Tuesday.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

  4. \r\n\r\nMinutes for Approval<\/a>\r\n
      \r\n
    1. \r\n\r\nWork Session — August 11, 2014<\/a>\r\n
    2. \r\n\r\nRegular Session — August 12, 2014<\/a>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n
    3. \r\n\r\nAppointments<\/a>\r\n
        \r\n
      1. \r\n\r\nGreater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC)<\/a>\r\n

        \r\nGLPC put up only one name to replace departing young black woman Diondra Nichols:\r\n\r\nold white man attorney Brad Folsom<\/a>.\r\nThe County Commission can instead choose to appoint whoever it wants to.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

      2. \r\n\r\nGeorgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities<\/a>\r\n

        \r\nIs this for the Region 4 Regional Planning Board<\/a> (current Lowndes County members Dr. Sheila Crowley Cook and Dr. Linda Floyd)\r\nor for the\r\nValdosta Behavioral Health Crisis Center (current Lowndes County members \r\nMs. Cindy Vickery, RPh \r\nPharmacist, SGMC,\r\nMs. Sheila Wakeley \r\nRetired LCSW,\r\nChair \r\nMr. Shamb Purohit,\r\nRobert Woodward,\r\nLowndes Co. Manager)?\r\nWhich seat is up?\r\nWho is applying?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      3. \r\n\r\nPublic Hearing<\/a>\r\n
          \r\n
        1. \r\n\r\nRezoning Case REZ-2014-15<\/a>\r\n

          \r\nAccording to \r\nthe most recent GLPC agenda<\/a>, this is a request to undo\r\nsomething the Lowndes County Commission previously did:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

          \r\n\r\nREZ-2014-15 GP Investments\r\n<\/strong>\r\n
          Property Location:<\/strong> Copeland Road, Inner Perimeter Road, and U.S. 41 South,\r\nValdosta, Georgia\r\n
          Request to remove rezoning conditions approved by the Lowndes County Board\r\nof Commissioners\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

          \r\nLAKE video of GLPC item.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

          \r\nAccording to the Tax Assessors database, the owner of\r\n\r\nparcel 0166 008<\/a>\r\nis GP INVESTMENTS OF VALDOSTA LLC<\/a>,\r\nwhich is a Lake Park company with agent Giovanni Panizzi,\r\nand the GA Sec State’s office says that’s not the same\r\nas GP INVESTMENTS, L.L.C.<\/a>, which is an Atlanta company.\r\nSo even the GLPC agenda is wrong.\r\n

          \r\nHere’s the beginning of a lengthy item in the\r\n8 February 2005 Regular Session minutes of the Lowndes County Commission<\/a>, which is presumably the source of the\r\nrestrictions the current owners want changed:\r\n\r\n<\/p>\r\n

          \r\n

          \r\nPublic Hearing \u2013 Rezoning Ordinances for Adoption \r\n<\/H4>\r\n

          \r\n\r\n#04-1260 \u2013 LO-2004-64 \u2013 Charles Bennett, A-U and C-H to R-10, 92.684 Acres, Inner \r\nPerimeter, Hwy 41 & Copeland<\/u>\r\n— Jason Davenport, Associate Planner, explained that there\r\nwere actually two issues connected with this request. One issue was\r\nto consider the rezoning request and the other was to consider\r\nextraterritorial delivery of water and sewer services. Each of these\r\nissues would require a separate motion.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

        2. \r\n\r\nULDC Text Amendments, Zoning Map, & Fee Schedule<\/a>\r\n

          \r\nAccording to \r\nthe most recent GLPC agenda<\/a>, this is TXT-2014-2 and is the Lowndes County Commission’s own requst to finish up work it’s been doing on the ULDC:\r\n<\/p>\r\n

          \r\n\r\nTXT-2014-2 Lowndes County Board of Commissioners\r\n<\/strong>\r\n
          \r\nThe adoption of the ULDC that completes amendments previously approved by the LCBOC\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

          \r\nLAKE video of GLPC item.<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

        3. \r\n\r\nFor Consideration<\/a>\r\n
            \r\n
          1. \r\n\r\nGeorgia Department of Corrections Contract Renewal<\/a>\r\n

            \r\nMaybe we’re not supposed to remember that every year they renew their\r\ncontract for three prison details from Valdosta State Prison, because\r\nthey think it’s such a good deal to hire prisoners for cheap even though\r\nlocal people need jobs.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

          2. \r\n\r\nHahira’s Extraterritorial Request<\/a>\r\n

            \r\nOn Mars?\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

          3. \r\n\r\nReports-County Manager<\/a>\r\n
          4. \r\n\r\nCitizens Wishing to be Heard Please State Name And Address<\/a>\r\n

            \r\nOnly in the Regular Session, 5:30 PM Tuesday.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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