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