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Citizen dialog for transparent process
When somebody wants to rezone next to you, or pave your road,
how do you know if you want it or not, and what can you do about it?
When class sizes increase or test scores are mysterious, is it
just your school and family or are others having questions too?
Builders and developers and their associations talk to local governments
all the time, so they already know. Ordinary citizens need the same
kind of organization and access. LAKE aims to provide such transparency
through citizen involvement and publishing information on the web
and through the press.
More generally, how can the local county and city governments
and the numerous local boards preserve and promote quality
of life equally with growth and development?
LAKE helps find out what's going on and help make it visible.
With this county-wide perspective, LAKE can assist in
planning and strategy for the county as a whole.
Join us and help make Lowndes County and the region
a better place to live, work and play!
For more information, contact
information at l-a-k-e.org.
LAKE topics
LAKE provides information about topics that affect
quality of life in Lowndes County, Georgia.
Where such information is available on
local government websites, we encourage it.
Where it is not,
we encourage the local governments to make it available,
and we may possibly publish some of it ourselves.
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Rezonings:
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REZ-2023-04 Chase, 6119 Quarterman Road, 0022 102 ~17.8 acres
Current Zoning: E-A (Estate Agricultural)
Proposed Zoning: R-A (Residential Agricultural
- Greater Lowndes Planning Commission (GLPC) board packet and agenda 2023-08-28
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Videos: Quarterman Road rezoning recommended against, Mt. Zion Church Road for @ GLPC 2023-08-28
GLPC voted 7:1 to recommend denial.
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Please reject REZ-2023-04 2.5-acre rezoning on Quarterman Road –Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE 2023-08-28
(includes table of petition signers)
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Please keep Quarterman Road in agriculture and forestry --WWALS to Greater Lowndes Planning Commission 2023-08-28.
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Packet: Board of Health appointment, two rezonings, 4 water, mosquitoes @ LCC 2023-09-11.
The Lowndes County Commission will make the final decision on this rezoning in its Regular Session, 5:30 PM, Tuesday, September 12, 2023, at 327 N. Ashley Street – 2nd Floor, Valdosta, GA 31601.
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REZ-2022-20 Teramore, Hwy 122 & Skipper Bridge (Part of 0067 051)
E-A to C-C, Well and Septic, ~3 acres
[for a Dollar General]
GLPC voted 7:1 to recommend denial.
Lowndes County Commission unanimously voted to deny this rezoning.
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REZ-2021-28 Windy Hill S/D, 7532 Miller Bridge Rd., 0010 022, 34 ac.,
Community well & septic, E-A to R-1 (21 minimum 1.25-acre lots)
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REZ-2007-21, Lower Lowndes, Inc., Quarterman Road, 0102 042, 58 acres,
E-A to R-21 (63 half-acre lots)
"The Greater Lowndes Planning Commission recommended denial of the request by an 8-1 vote.
The property was also in question because of concerns of gas easements across the property."
The Lowndes County Commission denied this rezoning by not voting to approve it.
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The Dorfman Report:
Local governments must ensure balanced growth,
as
sprawling residential growth is a certain ticket to fiscal ruin*
* Or at least big tax increases.
The Local Government Fiscal Impacts of Land Use in Lowndes County:
Revenue and Expenditure Streams by Land Use Category,
Jeffrey H. Dorfman, Ph.D., Dorfman Consulting, December 2007.
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Methane (so-called natural gas) and that Sabal Trail pipeline.
See also FERC.
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Solar.
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Water.
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Nuclear.
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Incarceration.
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Charter schools.
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