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Resident urges board to ask GDOT to stop Vogel Parkway; commissioners agree to draft resolution
Summary
A Burke County resident asked the Board of Commissioners to seek that the Georgia Department of Transportation stop the Vogel Parkway project and reallocate the funds; commissioners voted to draft a resolution for later approval.
Bill Lively, a Burke County resident, told the Board of Commissioners that the planned Vogel Parkway segment would cross farmland, remove tax base and that “not 1 person thinks that road's needed or warranted.”
The request followed discussion of the project’s history and route; Lively said he learned the project had resumed after years of dormancy and quoted advice from State Sen. Max…
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