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Horn Springs Road residents raise safety and road-cost concerns over proposed Site 7
Summary
Residents living along Horn Springs Road and Coles Ferry Pike told the committee that heavy construction traffic would overwhelm narrow, curve-prone roads and urged keeping the facility inside city limits or budgeting road improvements.
Multiple speakers who identified themselves as Horn Springs Road residents opposed Site 7 (Oriole Drive/Horn Springs Road) because of narrow roads, blind curves and the predicted volume of construction traffic. Teresa Dudley Hatcher described the family farm and said her family does not want to sell: "We've all gone on the record... that we do not want to sell our farm on Coles Ferry Pike."
Other residents described recent grading projects that damaged local roads and warned that hundreds of dump trucks and concrete haulers over several years would degrade the corridor further. Speakers asked the committee and city to account for off-site road improvements in future cost estimates and to ensure adequate emergency-service access for an annexed island of city property accessed from county roads.
