BILLY BRUCE
The Valdosta Daily Times
VALDOSTA
Sat, May 17 2008
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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.
* The second request is for two parcels comprising 1.93 acres on the west side of Bemiss just south of Cherry Creek Church Road. The owner is listed as Samuel Davis Register III.
* The third request is for 20 parcels comprising 21.64 acres on the east and west side of Bemiss just south of Skipper Bridge Road.
Seven of the parcels have Bemiss Road addresses. The owners are listed as the city of Valdosta, PLD LLLP, William E. McCans and Bobby J. Merritt, Bemiss Partners LLC, The Citizens Bank, and J.H. Harvey Co. LLC.
Eleven have Maranatha Lane addresses. The owners are listed as Irene Fernandez, Nelco Inc., William L. Clanton, Bronte LLC, Rajesh Chevada, and Shri Bavaji Inc.
One is on Aslan Road, owned by Tammi Pittman, and the other is on State Road 125, owned by Samuel David Register III.
Also on the planning commission’s agenda:
* A request by the city of Hahira to annex and rezone 70.17 acres from County Planned Development to City Single Family Residential.
* A request by Richard Wagner to rezone 13.81 acres from agricultural uses to commercial. The property is located next to the northern gateway of Dasher city limits. County planning staff recommends approval of the request.
* A request by Louie Radney Jr. to rezone 23 acres on Shiloh Road from an active farm use to residential agriculture. Radney intends to subdivide the property to a potential 9 tracts. County planning staff recommends approval.
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