LAKE: Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange

LAKE Topics

LAKE provides information about topics that affect the whole of Lowndes County, Georgia. Topics may include but are not limited to:

citizen involvement and reports from government and school meetings.
governmental process (work review, staff, board, and commission appointments, city-county interfaces)
taxes
- senior property taxes
- school taxes
- SPLOST VI
- access and desirability
land use
- Valdosta Urbanized Area
- Fiscal Effects of Land Use Decisions
- gatech model of development in Lowndes County
- ULDC
- Valdosta code [need link]
- Comprehensive Plan
- SGRDC Moody Joint Land Use Study
Incarceration
transportation
- paving and widening projects,
  - Old US 41 N and car41no
  - Wider is Not Safer
  - Quarterman Road
- road classifications, local, collector, etc.
- and scenic and canopy roads
- Lowndes County Thoroughfare Plan
mass transit
- busses
  - Lowndes County bus [need link]
  - Valdosta Transit Implementation Plan
- streetcars
- and passenger trains
tourism
- geocaching
- canopy roads
- scenic roads
environment
- waste management
- recycling
- wetlands
- water quantity and quality
- air quality
renewable agriculture
- Mulching
clean renewable energy
- solar
- wind
- ground loop
allegedly renewable energy
- cellulosic ethanol
- biomass
health care
child care
broadband deployment, access, and competition
- DSL
- cable
- wireless
other relevant issues concerning quality of life in Lowndes County

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.