byMitch Sneed/Times-Georgian
CARROLLTON, GA -- There will be no toll road in Carroll County, no communications coordinators, an employed project manager or approved budgetary grant to the Re-Entry program.
The Carroll County Board of Commissioners voted all those measures down Tuesday night, with some of the discussion becoming quite impassioned.
A resolution for the county to join a Joint Development Authority for the proposed Western Commercial Connector – a $2 billion, privately funded toll road would span 113 miles – that would run through Carroll County while stretching from I-75 in Bartow County all the way to Spalding County on the south end got shot down, in a 7-0 vote.
The idea originated with the Paulding County Development Authority and to date Paulding County is the only government to approve the resolution.
The vote came after it became apparent that the idea of a four-lane super highway cut through the county was not something that was wanted here. Thirteen residents spoke passionately at Tuesday night’s commission meeting against the resolution to create a development authority for the project.
Resident Brian Hager said he had researched the laws and creating the authority is in essence signing off on the project and being a member forever.
“This resolution is not a group to study the feasibility of a toll road,” Hager said. “The resolution creates a development authority to implement a project. I ask you to decline their invitation to participate.”
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The Carroll County Board of Commissioners voted all those measures down Tuesday night, with some of the discussion becoming quite impassioned.
A resolution for the county to join a Joint Development Authority for the proposed Western Commercial Connector – a $2 billion, privately funded toll road would span 113 miles – that would run through Carroll County while stretching from I-75 in Bartow County all the way to Spalding County on the south end got shot down, in a 7-0 vote.
The idea originated with the Paulding County Development Authority and to date Paulding County is the only government to approve the resolution.
The vote came after it became apparent that the idea of a four-lane super highway cut through the county was not something that was wanted here. Thirteen residents spoke passionately at Tuesday night’s commission meeting against the resolution to create a development authority for the project.
Resident Brian Hager said he had researched the laws and creating the authority is in essence signing off on the project and being a member forever.
“This resolution is not a group to study the feasibility of a toll road,” Hager said. “The resolution creates a development authority to implement a project. I ask you to decline their invitation to participate.”
Read more:Times-Georgian - Commissioners say no to toll road communications coordinators
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