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Resident tells Polk commissioners toll-road routing threatens family property, demands alternatives

3220694 · April 1, 2025
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A resident told commissioners that proposed toll-road route options could take a portion of her family’s 300-acre property and urged officials to press the toll authority for alternate alignments that avoid heritage land.

Sharon Garrett, a long-time resident of Indian Lake Estates-area property, told the Polk County Board that toll-road route options under consideration by the state toll authority could take a portion of her family’s roughly 300-acre property and that she wants alternatives explored.

“Money doesn’t make me whole,” Garrett said. “It’s heritage and love of the land,” adding later that “my…

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