{"id":9854,"date":"2014-08-23T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T10:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=9854"},"modified":"2014-08-25T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T14:51:47","slug":"francis-lake-opposition-and-32-vote-for-anyway-lcc-2014-08-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/francis-lake-opposition-and-32-vote-for-anyway-lcc-2014-08-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Francis Lake opposition and 3:2 vote for anyway @ LCC 2014-08-12"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\nUpdate 2014-08-25:<\/strong> There was some rationale for why the Commission voted to approve. See Videos: developer property rights and effects on neighbors, Leninco, Roger Budd, Lake Park @ LCC 2014-08-12<\/a>.\r\n

\r\n<\/a>\r\nWith little notice local citizens didn’t have time to organize opposition\r\nto a rezoning for three companies domiciled outside Lowndes County\r\non behalf of a developer who doesn’t even own the property next to them.\r\nYet again no agenda was posted for the Planning Commission last month\r\nso few people showed up.\r\nMore spoke at the Lowndes County Commission this month.\r\nBut with so little time, only 38 people signed a petition,\r\nand there were no\r\ncitizen-organized meetings, unlike for\r\n\r\nthe Brookhaven rezoning back in March and April<\/a>.\r\nUnlike the Lake Park City Council, which\r\nheld a special public hearing<\/a>,\r\nthe Lowndes County Commission plowed ahead on its usual schedule\r\nand voted on a bare majority to approve anyway for a developer on which\r\nthey are on a first-name basis,\r\nwhile local neighbors went un-named and unheeded.\r\nDoes this seem right to you?\r\n

\r\nToma Hawk\r\n\r\nvideoed and edited together<\/a> the Work Session of 11 August 2014\r\nand the Regular Session of 12 August 2014\r\nto emphasize this item from the agenda<\/a>:\r\n

\r\n6.b. REZ-2014-14 Roger Budd Jr, Lakes Blvd (SR 376), R-10 to C-G, Water\/Sewer, ~4.2 acres\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n

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