{"id":4350,"date":"2013-06-24T19:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=4350"},"modified":"2013-06-24T19:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:08:32","slug":"to-rename-george-road-first-find-it-lcc-2013-06-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/to-rename-george-road-first-find-it-lcc-2013-06-24.html","title":{"rendered":"To rename George Road, first find it @ LCC 2013-06-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nCommissioners had trouble figuring out which road the County Engineer<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Usn5agr1voA\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/Usn5agr1voA\/default.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nwanted to rename, and which roads had already been closed, at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/videos-2-appointments-3-public-hearings-9-considerations-and-2-bids-lcc-2013-06-24.html\"><br \/>\nthis morning&#8217;s Lowndes County Commission Regular Session<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/9128751995\/sizes\/z\/\" title=\"Commissioner Crawford Powell questioning County Engineer Mike Fletcher\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3676\/9128751995_40b7a0f43b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Commissioner Crawford Powell questioning County Engineer Mike Fletcher\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<table style=\"float:right;width:300px\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=hickory+grove+road,+valdosta,+ga&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=30.840205,-83.293535&amp;sspn=0.00923,0.013132&amp;hnear=Hickory+Grove+Rd+N,+Valdosta,+Georgia&amp;t=m&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;ll=30.720145,-83.13715&amp;spn=0.044272,0.051498&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=A&amp;output=embed\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=hickory+grove+road,+valdosta,+ga&amp;hl=en&amp;sll=30.840205,-83.293535&amp;sspn=0.00923,0.013132&amp;hnear=Hickory+Grove+Rd+N,+Valdosta,+Georgia&amp;t=m&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;ll=30.720145,-83.13715&amp;spn=0.044272,0.051498&amp;z=13&amp;iwloc=A&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<blockquote><p>\n6.a. Renaming George Road (CR #105)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal\">\nThere are two George Roads in the county and residents<br \/>\nwant to change the name of this one to Caney(?) Branch Road.<br \/>\nThere were some questions from Commissioners, mostly about where that road is.<br \/>\nCommissioner Crawford Powell kept asking if it was a continuation<br \/>\nof Corbett Road.<br \/>\nCounty Engineer Mike Fletcher said no, and the part of Corbett<br \/>\nRoad Powell was thinking of was closed.<br \/>\nApparently the Commission has closed so many roads even the<br \/>\nCommissioners can&#8217;t keep track of which they are.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal\">\nIf the Commissioners, with their packets in front of them, were confused,<!--more--><br \/>\nso much more so probably are you, dear readers, who don&#8217;t<br \/>\nhave those packets.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=hickory+grove+road,+valdosta,+ga&#038;hl=en&#038;ll=30.720145,-83.13715&#038;spn=0.073934,0.105057&#038;sll=30.840205,-83.293535&#038;sspn=0.00923,0.013132&#038;hnear=Hickory+Grove+Rd+N,+Valdosta,+Georgia&#038;t=m&#038;z=13\"><br \/>\nCR 105, aka George Road East<\/a>, runs between Hickory Grove Road<br \/>\nand Statenville Road (GA 376) east of Lake Park.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/thoroughfare-plan-for-lowndes-county.html\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3162\/3050824959_32b74f0142_m.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\nI know this because I have a copy of the Lowndes County<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/thoroughfare-plan-for-lowndes-county.html\">Thoroughfare Plan<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat Plan no longer seems to be on the county&#8217;s website.<br \/>\nAnd only a few weeks ago one Commissioner was unaware it even existed.<br \/>\nAh, transparency in Lowndes County!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Usn5agr1voA\"><br \/>\nthe video:<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Usn5agr1voA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo rename George Road, first find it<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWork Session, Lowndes County Commission (LCC),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVideo by Gretchen Quarterman for Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange (LAKE),<br \/>\n<br \/>\nValdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 24 June 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\n -jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners had trouble figuring out which road the County Engineer wanted to rename, and which roads had already been closed, at this morning&#8217;s Lowndes County Commission Regular Session. View Larger Map 6.a. Renaming George Road (CR #105) There are two George Roads in the county and residents want to change the name of this one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,88,3,449],"tags":[6495,623,6508,8701,8699,10,8702,91,12,7,8734,625,3435,4338,8700,6509,6,90],"class_list":["post-4350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-transparency","category-transportation","tag-24-june-2013","tag-crawford-powell","tag-george-road","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-lake","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-mike-fletcher","tag-questions","tag-thoroughfare-plan","tag-transparency","tag-trasnsportation","tag-valdosta","tag-work-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4350\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}