{"id":2057,"date":"2011-05-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/lot-size-and-code-enforcement-on-old-pine-road-8-june-2010.html"},"modified":"2011-05-09T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:00:00","slug":"lot-size-and-code-enforcement-on-old-pine-road-8-june-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/lot-size-and-code-enforcement-on-old-pine-road-8-june-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Lot size and code enforcement on Old Pine Road, 8 June 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=COq6JZJt9rI\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/COq6JZJt9rI\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nAshley Paulk said he is code enforcement!<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s go back a year to the rezoning of Old Pine Road on 8 June 2010,<br \/>\nas an example of how some things fit together around here.<br \/>\nFirst a bit more about lot size, and then code enforcement and traffic.<\/p>\n<p>\nCommissioner Richard Lee wanted to know if Coy Brightwell<br \/>\nwas the spokesperson for the people against.<br \/>\nBrightwell said some others would also speak,<br \/>\nbut R-10 was the closest to a quarter acre lot, and that&#8217;s what they<br \/>\nwere for.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=COq6JZJt9rI\"><br \/>\nPart 1 of 3:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/COq6JZJt9rI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nLot size and code enforcement on Old Pine Road, 8 June 2010 Part 1 of 3:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRezoning REZ-2010-06, Glen Laurel, Old Pine Rd,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegular monthly meeting of the Lowndes County Commission (LCC)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 June 2010,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman<br \/>\n<br \/>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nA Mr. Mulligan of Bemiss Road wanted to know<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ziInYdsnoM0\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/ziInYdsnoM0\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nA Mr. Mulligan of Bemiss Road wanted to know<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWho develops these plans, the county, or the developer?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nChairman Ashley Paulk said the county keeps up the rights of way.<\/p>\n<p>\nMr. Mulligan then wanted to know:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWho enforces &#8230; in these subdivisions?<br \/>\nIs there a law about that?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chairman Paulk said that goes to code enforcement.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nMr. Mulligan asked:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhy don&#8217;t you make the developers put up a million dollars<br \/>\nto pay for the upkeep for ten or fifteen years?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chairman Paulk said he didn&#8217;t think they could make the developer do that.<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ziInYdsnoM0\"><br \/>\nPart 2 of 3:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ziInYdsnoM0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nLot size and code enforcement on Old Pine Road, 8 June 2010 Part 2 of 3:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRezoning REZ-2010-06, Glen Laurel, Old Pine Rd,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegular monthly meeting of the Lowndes County Commission (LCC)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 June 2010,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman<br \/>\n<br \/>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VJAs0zqph3w\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/VJAs0zqph3w\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nChairman Paulk added:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd really when you sell a piece of property to a person in America<br \/>\nit&#8217;s their piece of property.<br \/>\nIf they don&#8217;t mow the grass, the only recourse you have is through code enforcement.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Mulligan wanted to know who does code enforcement.<br \/>\nChairman Paulk said it was the county, and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou&#8217;re looking at him.<br \/>\nMe.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Ashley Paulk is code enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\nThey discussed which subdivisions were in the county.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/unkempt-detention-pond.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4122\/4772110462_15845b9119_t.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nHm, what about Hamilton Circle, which is in the county,<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/07\/unkempt-detention-pond.html\"><br \/>\nwhich had snakes crawling up out of its unkempt detention pond a month later?<\/a><br \/>\nCuriously, when I brought that Hamilton Circle issue up before the Commission,<br \/>\nit was Richard Lee who showed interest in dealing with it, not Ashley Paulk.<\/p>\n<p>\nPaulk and Mulligan discussed traffic.<br \/>\nAmong other things, Chairman Paulk said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI&#8217;m not going to argue Bemiss Highway, it&#8217;s not a pertinent fact.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nPersonally, I think traffic is pertinent on all roads leading into a subdivision.<br \/>\nFunny how the developer gets to consider only their one property and<br \/>\nthe neighbors get to deal with all the effects on all the related roads.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VJAs0zqph3w\"><br \/>\nPart 3 of 3:<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VJAs0zqph3w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<small><br \/>\nLot size and code enforcement on Old Pine Road, 8 June 2010 Part 3 of 3:<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRezoning REZ-2010-06, Glen Laurel, Old Pine Rd,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRegular monthly meeting of the Lowndes County Commission (LCC)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 June 2010,<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman and John S. Quarterman<br \/>\n<br \/>\nfor LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n<p>\nSo developers don&#8217;t have to put up any sort of bond for keeping their developed<br \/>\nproperty in good condition, and don&#8217;t have to consider traffic on roads leading in.<br \/>\nYet the neighbors have to deal with these things from development on.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Paulk said he is code enforcement! Let&#8217;s go back a year to the rezoning of Old Pine Road on 8 June 2010, as an example of how some things fit together around here. First a bit more about lot size, and then code enforcement and traffic. 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