{"id":23133,"date":"2022-09-01T11:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=23133"},"modified":"2022-09-12T06:48:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:48:17","slug":"very-unusual-rehearing-of-a-rezoning-lcc-2022-09-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2022\/09\/very-unusual-rehearing-of-a-rezoning-lcc-2022-09-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Very unusual: Rehearing of a rezoning @ LCC 2022-09-13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 2022-09-12<\/strong>:\r\nPacket: redo 2 rezonings, 3 extraterritorial water & sewer, $438,537 RR crossing, $2,542,586 Griner Park @ LCC 2022-09-12<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nNobody seems to remember the Lowndes County Commission ever\r\nredoing a rezoning public hearing.\r\nPossibly this is what they’ve been holding Executive Sessions about lately.\r\n

\r\nThanks to\r\n\r\nJane Fleming Osborn for spotting<\/a> this pair of public notices\r\nabout redoing the same rezoning\r\nthat appeared in the Valdosta Daily Times, apparently on August 29, 2022.\r\n

\r\n\"[Both<\/a>\r\n
Both notices<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nOne is to consider the validity of the previous vote<\/a>.\r\nThen they previously rezoned this property on June 16, 2022,\r\none Commissioner was absent, and\r\n\r\nthe Chairman decided a split vote<\/a>.\r\n

\r\nThe Public Notice is about the rezoning itself, with a prominent warning tacked on the end<\/a>\r\nthat it’s for a halfway house for drug rehabilitation.\r\nApparently lack of that last bit was a legal problem<\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\n

About the validity of the vote<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\n\"[Validity<\/a>\r\n
Validity of the previous vote<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

\r\nNotice of Public Hearing\r\n<\/H4>\r\n

\r\nThe Board of Commissioners of Lowndes County\r\nwill hold a public hearing at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday,\r\nSeptember 13, 2022, in the Lowndes County Judicial\r\nand Administrative Complex, Commission Chambers, 2nd Floor, 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia,\r\nto consider the validity of its June 16, 2022, vote in\r\nCase Number REZ-2022-10, regarding all or part of\r\nTax Map 0186 Parcel 107 and Tax Map 0187 Parcel 082,\r\non the application by Redeemed Living, c\/o Charles B.\r\nMoore Jr. on behalf of Parkerson Properties, LLC\/\r\nThoomas A. Parkerson, to amend the Zoning Map of\r\nLowndes County, Georgia to rezone 23 acres located\r\nat 2193 Howell Road, Valdosta, Georgia, from E-A\r\n(Estate Agriculture) zoning district to PD (Planned Development)\r\nzoning district for uses to include a Transitional\r\nCare Facility. The Lowndes County\r\nUnified Land Development Code defines Transitional Care Facility\r\nto mean: “A building or buildings in which is provided\r\nlong-term but not permanent living accommodations \r\nfor one or more persons who are in need of short term\r\nor long-term housing assistance,\r\nand in which may also be provided meals and social services\r\nincluding physical therapy, social therapy, emotional therapy,\r\ncounseling, rehabilitation, or substance\r\nabuse recovery assistance.”\r\n

\r\n633939-1\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

About the rezoning itself<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nWith added legal definition and boldfaced warning about halfway house for\r\ndrug rehabilitation.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\"[Prominent<\/a>\r\n
Prominent statement about halfway house for drug rehabilitation<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n

Notice of Public Hearing<\/H4>\r\n

\r\nThe Board of Commissioners of Lowndes County\r\nwill hold a public hearing pursuant to OCGA § 36-66-4(f)\r\nat 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday,\r\nSeptember 13, 2022, in the Lowndes County Judicial\r\nand Administrative Complex, Commission Chambers, 2nd Floor, 327 North Ashley Street, Valdosta, Georgia,\r\nin\r\nCase Number REZ-2022-10, regarding all or part of\r\nTax Map 0186 Parcel 107 and Tax Map 0187 Parcel 082,\r\non the application by Redeemed Living, c\/o Charles B.\r\nMoore Jr. on behalf of Parkerson Properties, LLC\/\r\nThoomas A. Parkerson, to amend the Zoning Map of\r\nLowndes County, Georgia to rezone 23 acres located\r\nat 2193 Howell Road, Valdosta, Georgia, from E-A\r\n(Estate Agriculture) zoning district to PD (Planned Development)\r\nzoning district for uses to include a Transitional\r\nCare Facility. The Lowndes County\r\nUnified Land Development Code defines Transitional Care Facility\r\nto mean: “A building or buildings in which is provided\r\nlong-term but not permanent living accommodations \r\nfor one or more persons who are in need of short term\r\nor long-term housing assistance,\r\nand in which may also be provided meals and social services\r\nincluding physical therapy, social therapy, emotional therapy,\r\ncounseling, rehabilitation, or substance\r\nabuse recovery assistance.”\r\nThe legal dictionary definition of halfway house is\r\n“A transitional housing facility designed to rehabilitate people\r\nwho have recently left a prison or medical-care facility, or who\r\notherwise need help in adjusting to unsupervised living.”\r\nThe proposed zoning decision relates to or will allow the location\r\nor relocation of a halfway house, drug rehabilitation center,\r\nor other facility for the treatment of drug dependency.<\/strong>\r\n

\r\n633941-1\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

The Law<\/a><\/H4>\r\n

\r\nApparently the lack of that warning is one source of this rehearing.\r\n

\r\n\r\nO.C.G.A. 36-66-4 (2010)<\/a>\r\n

\r\n

\r\n36-66-4. Hearings on proposed zoning decisions; notice of hearing; nongovernmental initiated actions; reconsideration of defeated actions; procedure on zoning for property annexed into municipality.\r\n

\r\n…\r\n

\r\n(f) When a proposed zoning decision relates to or will allow the location or relocation of a halfway house, drug rehabilitation center, or other facility for treatment of drug dependency, a public hearing shall be held on the proposed action. Such public hearing shall be held at least six months and not more than nine months prior to the date of final action on the zoning decision. The hearing required by this subsection shall be in addition to any hearing required under subsection (a) of this Code section. The local government shall give notice of such hearing by:\r\n

\r\n(1) Posting notice on the affected premises in the manner prescribed by subsection (b) of this Code section; and\r\n

\r\n(2) Publishing in a newspaper of general circulation within the territorial boundaries of the local government a notice of the hearing at least 15 days and not more than 45 days prior to the date of the hearing.\r\n

\r\nBoth the posted notice and the published notice shall include a prominent statement that the proposed zoning decision relates to or will allow the location or relocation of a halfway house, drug rehabilitation center, or other facility for treatment of drug dependency. The published notice shall be at least six column inches in size and shall not be located in the classified advertising section of the newspaper.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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