{"id":129,"date":"2013-02-10T23:07:45","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T04:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/acree-park-at-hotchkiss-landing.html"},"modified":"2013-02-10T23:07:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T04:07:45","slug":"acree-park-at-hotchkiss-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/acree-park-at-hotchkiss-landing.html","title":{"rendered":"Acree Park at Hotchkiss Landing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/video-hearing-about-abandoning-old-state-road-at-the-alapaha-river-lcc-2010-10-26.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" class=\"at-xid-6a0120a58214e4970b017d40f12760970c\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/6a0120a58214e4970b017d40f12760970c-pi.jpg\"    \/><\/a><br \/>\nHow about if Lowndes County buys the land next to Old State Road<br \/>\nat Hotchkiss Crossing on the Alapaha River and turns it into<br \/>\nAcree Park?<br \/>\nThat would be a much better solution to the trash, tresspassing,<br \/>\nand hunting problems there than closing the road.<br \/>\nAnd Lowndes County itsels claims it has plenty of money available<br \/>\nfor just such a purpose.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs we&#8217;ve seen, Lowndes County&#8217;s own Comprehensive Plan says<br \/>\nthe county has $500,000 in Acquisition Funds Available to<br \/>\n&#8220;Adopt, implement, and update provisions of the Greenspace Initiative Plan to include land acquisition and resource enhancement\/protection.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd that it plans to<br \/>\n&#8220;Continue preparation and implementation of the Withlacoochee River Greenway Plan.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat say the county acquires parkland at Hotchkiss Landing<br \/>\nfrom<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAcree Investments LTD?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/video-hearing-about-abandoning-old-state-road-at-the-alapaha-river-lcc-2010-10-26.html\"><br \/>\nThat&#8217;s who really owns the land on both sides of Old State Road<br \/>\nat the Alapaha River,<\/a> not Phillip Connell,<br \/>\naccording to the Lowndes County Tax Assessor&#8217;s<br \/>\nonline database.<br \/>\nAnd making that land a park would solve all the problems of<br \/>\ntrash, trespassing, and illegal hunting that he complained about,<br \/>\nplus it could be organized so that Dr. Acree still has access<br \/>\nto the rest of his land there.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt could also combine with the<br \/>\nWithlacoochee River Greenway Plan<br \/>\nto form a River Corridor Protection Plan so<br \/>\nLowndes County can be a &#8220;Qualified Local Government&#8221;.<br \/>\nWhich right now<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2013\/02\/what-does-lowndes-comprehensive-plan-say-about-river-corridor-protection.html\"><br \/>\nit may not be<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about if Lowndes County buys the land next to Old State Road at Hotchkiss Crossing on the Alapaha River and turns it into Acree Park? That would be a much better solution to the trash, tresspassing, and hunting problems there than closing the road. And Lowndes County itsels claims it has plenty of money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,552,2,88,469,478,3,449,479,450,55],"tags":[654,453,456,679,452,684,8720,8777,623,622,685,8701,681,8699,10,680,621,548,489,8702,91,12,7,8734,625,8770,488,683,653,678,8772,682,8700,8767,8773,6,8768,8727],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-enforcement","category-comprehensive-plan","category-government","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-naylor","category-solid-waste","category-transparency","category-transportation","category-trash","category-vlpra","category-water","tag-acree-investments-ltd","tag-alapaha-river","tag-april-huntley","tag-ashley-paulk","tag-brett-huntley","tag-chris-graham","tag-code-enforcement","tag-comprehensive-plan","tag-crawford-powell","tag-demarcus-marshall","tag-g-robert-carter","tag-georgia","tag-glenda-cofield","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-j-c-riley","tag-john-page","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-joyce-evans","tag-lake","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-mike-fletcher","tag-naylor","tag-phillip-connell","tag-richard-lee","tag-richard-raines","tag-russell-acree","tag-solid-waste","tag-steve-bays","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-trash","tag-valdosta","tag-vlpra","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}