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GDOT-affiliated speaker Josh Waller described the concept and offered mock examples of a sign reading \"Carmen Champion Honorary Highway — dedicated by the 2025 Georgia General Assembly.\" Committee members responded positively in remarks recorded in the transcript.

The proposal was presented as a modest signage-format change to provide legislative recognition on future dedication signs; no committee action or vote was recorded on the recommendation during the hearing.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Transportation 02.27.25","oneSentenceSummary","A brief committee presentation proposed amending highway dedication signs to include the phrase 'dedicated by' and the year of the General Assembly in smaller font, giving legislative recognition on future signs.","taxTitle","Transportation, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Committees, Legislative, Georgia","taxId",17386,"location","Georgia","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":81,"_47":82,"_49":83,"_51":84,"_53":85,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":86,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":87,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6659764,"Georgia Airports Association urges more airport aid, revised matching formula and a statewide height study",129,3253000,3382000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600&start=3253&end=3382","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600/thumbnail_3253000.jpg","/articles/6659764/Georgia/Georgia-Airports-Association-urges-more-airport-aid-revised-matching-formula-and-a-statewide-height-study","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6659764-f15a0ef00762e9f44e1d0bbdf5a9185f/orig.mp4?Expires=1770499818&Signature=GgjSsoalueDPRNivfUmBaA6DC3OP-PmxswtTJxfYPtz2iY~80dt1gKLXFZUKWtD8pahBND31APWwQBd77a3ugpaLlqPOOajgzXQUUk8eyU0zdWxND85HgnM62Al7mR5mx453wQmnXMsVAbqjpXTFk~HfBR~go5MReNKoNvNl~kcNfq1PSB8V-JMWxizdBK2RTWR6iHH6dqwL63GzFnKZJupQ1Ha~HJk0Zadce7wHHrbdak32WdnYNBkyHptLzxdu86DXllTLs6vxSxImwFsBxvmlXTSHwURUOBrTdBM1pyKQgHNeEl1DYPp6ZRZBBqKAPeVA1atp7wBdJWEdJrB0vg__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Matt Smith, president of the Georgia Airports Association and airport manager at Gwinnett County Airport (Briscoe Field), briefed the committee on airport funding priorities and regulatory concerns.

Smith thanked lawmakers for $124 million in airport aid appropriated in fiscal year 2024 and said those funds supported 38 projects across the state, including runway safety improvements, facility upgrades, hangar development and security projects. He told the committee that GDOT projects remain underfunded and that GDOT projects are projected to face approximately $218 million in unfunded needs for fiscal year 2025.

The association asked the committee to consider revising the GDOT airport-aid matching formula. Smith said federal funding typically operates on a 90/10 federal/local split while GDOT’s current formula requires a 75/25 split, which can be difficult for smaller communities to meet. \"So we're asking to have the GDOT formula mirror the federal formula or to have a system where it's based on community needs,\" Smith said.

He also described work on a proposed hangar loan program and urged a joint study on statewide height restrictions near airports. Smith said the Federal Aviation Administration treats obstacles and structure heights as a local zoning matter; without coordinated state-level guidance, local decisions can inadvertently create hazards that reduce aircraft access or require airports to alter operations. \"Georgia is one of three states in the entire country that does not have a statewide height restriction,\" Smith said, and the association supports a joint study with GDOT, the Georgia Municipal Association and other stakeholders.

Committee members thanked the association for the update and suggested including real estate and local government stakeholders in any study of height restrictions. No committee action was taken; the presentation was informational.","The Georgia Airports Association updated the committee on airport funding needs, requested a revised GDOT matching formula to mirror federal funding, support for a proposed hangar loan program and asked for a joint study on statewide height restrictions near airports.",{"_33":89,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":90,"_41":91,"_43":92,"_45":93,"_47":94,"_49":95,"_51":96,"_53":97,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":98,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":99,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6659767,"Bill would require notice and hearings when private developers alter state roads; neighbors point to 'Dewberry Roundabout'",1017,1798000,2815000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600&start=1798&end=2815","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600/thumbnail_1798000.jpg","/articles/6659767/Georgia/Bill-would-require-notice-and-hearings-when-private-developers-alter-state-roads-neighbors-point-to-Dewberry-Roundabout","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6659767-00f1016afdc4f8c7d19fd8bf4b5491af/orig.mp4?Expires=1770499818&Signature=K4Z2~hmcKY~7KksiLGTpfBkHxw9Ty9tTKpPomM0yhifisrHVlo5N6dcGMftDLMd9LXQvqwLuOTX29UuOMIrwr~R96Knc1oSnT-yM-D2jDKa-iX3MALloskhPXsgROWHG550YNXY46KjdjEfTn6R21MTo2tyz5bIruLpr1yjTTo24B1qX2yIOQCtLmas8gAnru~nTzssEo6a3ASYfhU3MIO1Gr~kuPDnJw5r8PfWZvPkiwedlseX7KYWFwi3VKXnM17Vp-tnkROX0SyShUD-Vbpa0YTCuTGgUHAdCSShXUJ6jK6FC9MRFOANDqYYIGKEEHtO-Ta6Hoca6M-dS1gud4A__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Representative Evans introduced House Bill 76 to require notice and an opportunity for hearings when a private developer funds significant changes to state roads, saying current law requires hearings when GDOT funds projects but can lack the same protections when private parties pay for the work.

\"If we are having a significant road change in a neighborhood or near surrounding businesses, we give those parties the courtesy of number one, a heads up and the opportunity to provide input into how that project goes,\" Representative Evans said, recounting a recent privately funded roundabout project in Atlanta that neighbors learned about only after construction began.

Multiple neighborhood leaders — including Tom Bowler speaking for a local temple, Paul Dimock of the Ansley Park Civic Association and Nabil Hammam of Sherwood Forest — described waking up to bulldozers and learning the project had been approved under a special encroachment permit because the developer owned adjacent land and funded the work.

Speakers said they later used open-records requests to learn project details, and that GDOT and Atlanta Department of Transportation subsequently held after-the-fact meetings and committed to a traffic study. \"This project was not on Midtown Alliance’s master plan or any other public document,\" Paul Dimock told the committee. He and other residents said the principal concern is the secondary traffic impacts on nearby residential streets and intersections.

Deputy and committee members asked whether counties or cities had notification duties in these situations; presenters replied the primary issue was that GDOT’s permitting practice allowed a privately funded encroachment permit without the same statutory hearing requirement that applies to state-funded projects. Representative Evans said GDOT had changed internal rules to hold hearings in some cases but that the bill would place the requirement into statute.

The session was a hearing only; Representative Evans asked for the committee’s eventual favorable consideration and said she might return later to answer additional questions. No committee vote on HB 76 was recorded in the transcript.

Community groups urged statutory change so residents would receive notice and have an opportunity to provide input before work begins, particularly in dense urban corridors where construction can alter traffic flow for years.","Representative Evans presented House Bill 76 to require the same public-notice and hearing protections for state road changes funded by private developers as for state-funded projects. Neighbors and civic groups testified that a privately funded roundabout was built without advance community notice and urged the change.",{"_33":101,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":102,"_41":103,"_43":104,"_45":105,"_47":106,"_49":107,"_51":108,"_53":109,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":110,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":111,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6659771,"Committee backs bill to let GDOT perform work on military bases under intergovernmental agreement",294,1120000,1414000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600&start=1120&end=1414","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600/thumbnail_1120000.jpg","/articles/6659771/Georgia/Committee-backs-bill-to-let-GDOT-perform-work-on-military-bases-under-intergovernmental-agreement","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6659771-8d2a292bbc9a127b5f6f5f7ff9b89967/orig.mp4?Expires=1770499818&Signature=O1gEB5lNbFSuzc4kpAUaBFis6gw~fSHBjJL8eF5RhhToLshqFz94Dik1DSQmNJRCvsCizX5LBYN5mTSWZEr54nKNB1sGWuYhlNoOQwALa3tjbcNGxGOREgHMzqUhFJQ8FQxBPzVoqj5daDIMXZtcCXz1MIG7oi19th1inXaEhVyOT5byzJm6WU61ftfSPV-g83BC4W44Ct~8CrMprFYmjw8PeabSj0jWaK9cALjNkKw5svs0-2lvQDj5H44VlKGG-pmPdRdfH0TxdU-16P003~nsX~tbZEr3VhV5Bdx0QJ0WRf07Dnqy0aQ02sUKPzKzO8NE~IwpTK1lqgZXqknDZA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The House Transportation Committee voted to advance House Bill 224 after members heard from the bill’s sponsor, Representative Josh Bonner, and a video appearance by Colonel Mark Austin, garrison commander at Fort Stewart.

The bill would authorize Georgia to enter into a regional intergovernmental support agreement — described in testimony as a RIGSA or similar intergovernmental arrangement — with the Department of Defense. Committee testimony said the agreement would allow the Georgia Department of Transportation to provide engineering, contracting and other road-related services on Army installations when requested, enabling installations to use GDOT’s contracting relationships and subject-matter expertise.

Representative Josh Bonner told the committee the idea originated with installation leaders and that legislation was required to allow the state-level intergovernmental arrangement. \"This was brought to me...about a year and a half ago,\" Bonner said, adding that the proposal evolved through discussions with multiple officials.

Colonel Mark Austin, on Zoom, described the potential scale of need for Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, saying the installations maintain a three-year real property maintenance plan that included more than 80 individual road-paving projects totaling about $25,000,000. He said the RIGSA in Texas (effective June 2023) and similar agreements in North Carolina and Alabama informed the request and that the arrangement would not reduce costs to the Department of Defense but would provide access to GDOT staff expertise and to contractors that are already prequalified in Georgia.

Committee members asked whether GDOT would act as a contracting intermediary rather than performing all work directly; representatives answered that GDOT would be a partner and that the installations would pay for work but could benefit from state contracting scale and prequalified vendor lists. Representative Bruce Carter described the concept as a way to use \"institutional knowledge of the state\" to make repairs more efficient; Colonel Austin and Representative Bonner confirmed the arrangement would not be a state-funded subsidy.

The committee approved the bill by voice vote after a motion for \"do pass.\" Testimony recorded that installations would remain responsible for project costs; the proposed agreement is intended to improve timeliness and coordination and to open an additional contracting option for installations.

Votes at a glance: House Bill 224 — Do pass; voice vote; advanced by committee.","The committee approved House Bill 224, authorizing a statewide regional intergovernmental support agreement (RIGSA) framework with the Department of Defense so Georgia Department of Transportation can provide road work and related services for military installations such as Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield.",{"_33":113,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":114,"_41":115,"_43":116,"_45":117,"_47":118,"_49":119,"_51":120,"_53":121,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":122,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":123,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6659776,"Committee advances bill updating GDOT public-notice rules, towing incentives and utility coordination",139,253000,392000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600&start=253&end=392","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2445700-964147f294544f797dac3ee45e650600/thumbnail_253000.jpg","/articles/6659776/Georgia/Committee-advances-bill-updating-GDOT-public-notice-rules-towing-incentives-and-utility-coordination","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6659776-41a975ab50d376f08a54b9f39d8b87f7/orig.mp4?Expires=1770499818&Signature=JozKYCJPN1p6E7LqIKnZjBe-a1WDz25VQiIUVIgh6XEanQWeIAgsa4k1-eecvxMB-dE~8Ce5SFocEmFaoJgK9eFopaUxZwa2dLqk1v3yISmMYoZ14GL8Ptg5icT0o48nswZ61xUifnP9XUIp3QgeQV5z4mlGnP6QXhfDgIgKgKbCUCwnoAxm08GeXDtou50TlDWH2JdVic4y~eCXmuVPSReh5WzArASh-ZrlMRuzHTphYN3DLdO~q4tpoUsHKyeL5ZASqkSphxUvnYWfE1FO6r8t8J3PHiKVdXhTTP~LGbpPYznAHq4ga5IJiiC0PIcvmP4Kjvk00Ctou4cCNGjbKQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The House Transportation Committee on Monday advanced House Bill 575, a package of technical and programmatic updates to Georgia transportation law, by voice vote after a brief explanation from a Georgia Department of Transportation staff member.

The bill’s sponsor and GDOT staff said the measure makes four main changes: it updates statutory language for clarity, adjusts public-notice timing for hearings, allows condominium associations to serve as the agent for owner notices in negotiations over common property, clarifies the state’s towing-recovery incentive program for commercial vehicles and permits earlier coordination with utility owners for relocations on projects where the department already owns right of way.

Sponsor and GDOT briefers said the public-notice change would require two printings as before but allow the second printing to be either within five days of the meeting or in the last publishing before the meeting in jurisdictions with weekly newspapers. \"So this just says either 5 days or the last publishing before the meeting,\" GDOT staff member Josh Waller said.

Waller told the committee the condominium provision would let the homeowner association or condo board serve as the department’s agent for communicating about negotiations that affect common property such as green space or shared parking. \"Basically makes the HOA for the condo the agent on behalf of all of them for communication with us,\" he said, adding that the HOA’s governing documents would remain in force and not be superseded by the statute.

The bill also spells out the towing recovery and incentive program, known in practice as TRIP, which pays a supplemental premium to prequalified towers to encourage rapid removal of disabled or wrecked commercial vehicles on interstates. Waller said the premium typically ranges from about $800 to $2,000 and is tied to the complexity of the incident and the timeliness of the response; the premium is generally payable if the qualified tower clears the scene within about 90 minutes, although circumstances vary.

Finally, HB 575 would clarify that when the department already holds the right of way for a future project, GDOT may coordinate earlier with utility owners to relocate facilities before the construction contract is awarded. Waller said early relocation can reduce cascading delays when multiple utilities must be moved in sequence.

Committee members asked for examples and for clarity on how the towing premium is set; Waller described the scale as variable depending on the complexity of the crash and the need for specialized equipment. Committee members also discussed the practical benefits of being able to begin utility relocation sooner in projects where the department already owns the needed property.

The committee adopted a substitute and approved the bill by voice vote; no roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript.

The measure proceeds to further consideration; the substitute was identified in committee as LC4628.

Votes at a glance: House Bill 575 — Do pass substitute (LC4628); voice vote; substitute adopted.","The House Transportation Committee advanced House Bill 575, which revises public-notice timing for transportation hearings, allows condominium associations to act as notice agents in property negotiations, codifies a commercial-vehicle towing incentive program and clarifies early utility-relocation coordination on projects.","actionData","errors"]

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