A request from Danny Davis to rezone nearly 4 acres of land on North St. Augustine Road could help attract a family-style restaurant to a 10,000 square foot space Davis has planned for the property.

Davis takes his request to the Greater Lowndes Planning Commission when it meets at 5:30 p.m. Monday in regular session.

Also during the regular session, the city of Valdosta will seek an affirmative recommendation from the planning commission to rezone approximately 40 acres of land on Bemiss Road for commercial uses.

The land is privately owned.

Its owners receive city water and sewer service and have requested to be annexed, so the city is acting on their behalf to request the annexations.

The planning commission reviewed the requests during a brief work session Monday evening.

Davis wants the planning commission to recommend that the city approve his request to rezone 3.676 acres from Neighborhood Commercial to Highway Commercial for restaurant and retail use.

The land is located at 605 St. Augustine Rd. just north of Rouse Road, in-between River Street and Norman Drive (on the right side if heading towards I-75). Along with the restaurant space, Davis would develop 12,000 square feet of retail space, plus a parking lot. Davis would be required to install a 20-foot buffer wherever the property abutted residential property.

City planning staff recommends approval of Davis’s request.

If the city wins approval for its annexation requests, city boundaries will creep closer to Moody Air Force Base.

The city is acting on behalf of the owners of 28 parcels that are now legally eligible to annex into the city, in part, because the annexation would not create an island.

When the property owners began receiving city water and sewer service several years ago, they signed an agreement stating they would annex into the city at such time as they were legally eligible, City Planning and Zoning Administrator Anne-Marie Wolff said.

“Due to some other recent annexations, that time has now come,” she said. “The city zoning classifications will be essentially the same as the current county zonings and there is no proposed change in uses. Everything stays the same.”

The annexation/rezonings come in three separate requests:

* The first request is for six parcels comprising 18.29 acres on the west side of Bemiss north of Skipper Bridge Road. Owners are listed as Brink Investment Group Inc., Avery Walden, TTG Properties LP, Buro Investments LLC, Linda D. and Dennis M. White, and Draper Tire LLC.