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Lowndes County commissioners approve mobile-home park PD, clear commercial plan and table smaller rezoning
Summary
At a March session the Lowndes County Board of Commissioners approved a planned-development rezoning for the Bowdell Mobile Home Park and a 22-acre commercial planned development (with the planning-commission's fence condition removed), and tabled a separate 1-acre rezoning for additional information.
The Lowndes County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday approved two land-use requests and tabled a third after public comment and staff presentations.
Commissioners voted to approve REZ2026-06, a 34-acre planned-development application to reconfigure and eventually expand the Bowdell Mobile Home Park to roughly 150 units under a single ownership structure. Planner J.D. Dillard told the board the site meets the county's mobile-home community standards, including buffering, lot-size rules and utility connections; engineer Bill Kent and owner Bob Turner answered technical and phasing questions. Turner said the park will be developed in phases, existing homes will remain while new lots are added, and the owner will comply with inspection requirements for double-wide homes. A commissioner moved to approve the PD "as presented," and the motion carried by voice vote with no opposition.
The board also approved REZ2026-05, a 22-acre planned development along Highway 84 West for a multi-tenant commercial development, with staff-recommended conditions. At the planning commission meeting an additional (13th) condition required a fence to run to the Highway 84 right-of-way; the applicant's representative, Bill Najam, said the applicant accepted the 12 staff conditions but opposed the extended fence and asked that the fence stop at the property line adjoining the Ashwood Mobile Home Park. After discussion about a proposed detention pond and child-safety fencing, the commissioners voted to approve the application with the 12 listed conditions and not to impose the planning commission's thirteenth fence condition.
An earlier item, REZ2026-04 (a 1-acre R10-to-CG request at 5507 Central Street), was presented by Dillard and then tabled for more information. A commissioner moved to table that item until the board's first meeting in May; the motion passed by voice vote.
Planning staff highlighted typical conditions for these approvals: frontage and ingress/egress paving, required buffers adjacent to mobile-home parks, and utility connections to Lowndes County services. The board made no additional modifications to staff's written conditions at the meeting.
The approvals and the tabled item were taken as separate motions and recorded by voice vote; no roll-call tallies were read into the record.
