MOULTRIE, Ga. — Moultrie City Council tabled a rezoning request for the second time Tuesday and hinted that it planned to do so again at its first January meeting.

The request from Thomasville Investment Properties, LLC, would change the property at 1925 S. Main St. from Residential-Planned Unit Development to C-1 (Commercial) if the council approves it. It passed first and second readings — which is basically a vote to consider a matter — at the council’s Nov. 21 meeting, and a public hearing was held at the Dec. 5 meeting.

The request was tabled at the Dec. 5 meeting because the council had concerns about what the company planned to put there. Chris West, an attorney speaking for Thomasville Investment Properties, said the company does not have a tenant lined up for the property, but it wanted the zoning changed to make it easier for it to market the location to prospective tenants.

Council members expressed hope Dec. 5 that the company would have more information for them Tuesday about what to expect from a development at the site, which is bordered on three sides by residences but is across the street from a convenience store and other businesses.

Company representatives were not at Tuesday’s meeting. During a work session that preceded the official meeting, Councilman Daniel Dunn — the most vocal council member during the Dec. 5 discussion — told his colleagues that he has a scheduling conflict Jan. 2, the date of the next city council meeting, and he understood that representatives of Thomasville Investment Properties would also be unable to attend that day.

City Attorney Mickey Waller advised the council that while they can repeatedly table a measure — or could vote to table it indefinitely — he recommended putting off a zoning request for only a very short time without holding a second public hearing.

The decision reached in the work session was to table the request Tuesday (as was done) and to table it again on Jan. 2 because of the expected absences, although the vote to actually do that cannot be taken until the Jan. 2 meeting. By the time the council meets again Jan. 16, Waller said, the company needs to withdraw its rezoning request or the council needs to be prepared to act on it.

If the council denies the change in zoning, the company cannot reapply for a zoning change at that site for six months, Waller said; if the company withdraws its request, it can reapply at any time — such as when it is prepared to present its plans for the property.

In other action Tuesday, the city council:

• Recognized winners of the 2017 Christmas Parade.

• Changed the name on a rezoning request approved Dec. 5 from Gary Jenkins to Jenkins Gin Company to reflect the proper applicant.

• Approved first and second readings of a zoning change at 809 Fourth Ave. N.E., applied for by Farmers Dolomite Lime Company. This property is adjacent to the land the council rezoned for Jenkins Dec. 5. A public hearing will be held at the Jan. 2 meeting, when the council will consider whether to approve the zoning change.

• Agreed to provide power for lighting at a proposed roundabout on Highway 37 at Industrial Drive and Cool Springs Road. The equipment itself will be installed by either the state Department of Transportation or Colquitt County Commission, City Manager Pete Dillard said, but because the city owns the right-of-way at that intersection, it is responsible for providing electricity for the lights.

• Agreed to purchase decorative lights  for the Moultrie-Colquitt County Mule Barn Park, soon to be under construction on Central Avenue at Second Street. The county owns the property and will be funding much of the redesign of what is now a parking lot, but the project is part of a larger redevelopment effort spearheaded by the downtown merchants. Dillard said the lights will be the same kind as other decorative lights the city has installed in downtown.

• Heard from Ira Thompson, of 12th Avenue Southwest, who described disconnected power lines hanging near his residence, shoes hanging from power lines on Second Street Northwest, and a missing street sign on 12th Street at Seventh Avenue Northwest.

• Bid farewell to Councilwoman Susie Magwood-Thomas, who has served two terms on the council. Magwood-Thomas lost the November election to Cornelius Ponder, who will be sworn in at the Jan. 2 council meeting. Since the election, Magwood-Thomas has been named to the Moultrie-Colquitt County Development Authority board.