VALDOSTA — The Valdosta City Council deliberated for almost an hour on the future of a road leading into a residential area that is adjacent to property zoned for future industrial use at Thursday’s meeting.

The conversation on an ordinance to rezone 155.83 acres from Highway Commercial to Manufacturing at the northwest corner of St. Augustine Road and Lloyd Jackson Road was approved.

The discussions leading up to the approval gave many members on council a better understanding of parliamentary procedure by senior council member Sonny Vickers, District 3.

Lloyd Jackson Road runs down the side of the property back into a neighborhood.

The conversation by the council centered around the ability of the road to support truck traffic and the right of the council to impose restrictions on the traffic down Lloyd Jackson Road.

The request to rezone the property was made by the Valdosta-Lowndes Industrial Authority.

Bill Langdale represented the authority at the meeting. He said the property was a logical expansion of the industrial park and is shovel-ready.

The property is located between two other parcels of land zoned for industrial use and located next to a four lane highway and close to Interstate 75, he said.

He also requested that the council not put conditions on the use of Lloyd Jackson Road.

Mayor John Fretti asked authority executive director Brad Lofton if there were any plans by the authority to use Lloyd Jackson Road.

Lofton said no.

Resident Terry Walker, who lives on Lloyd Jackson Road requested that the council restrict the use of the road for the future development.

“Everyone on council has said we don’t want trucks on that road,” Fretti said.

City Engineer Von Shipman said the weight limit for traffic on the road is five tons. To make the road viable for larger vehicles, major work would have to be down on the road, which would be at the discretion of the council, he said.

Tim Carroll, District 6, asked if Lloyd Jackson was part of the city’s traffic master plan.