{"id":78,"date":"2013-02-26T13:04:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/proposed-abandonment-of-a-portion-of-county-road-16old-state-rd-brett-huntley-lcc-2013-02-25.html"},"modified":"2013-02-26T13:04:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T18:04:22","slug":"proposed-abandonment-of-a-portion-of-county-road-16old-state-rd-brett-huntley-lcc-2013-02-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/proposed-abandonment-of-a-portion-of-county-road-16old-state-rd-brett-huntley-lcc-2013-02-25.html","title":{"rendered":"Proposed abandonment of a portion of County Road 16\/Old State Rd. —Brett Huntley @ LCC 2013-02-25"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nReceived today; he sent it to all the Commissioners. -jsq\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nTo the commission on the proposed idea of road abandonment on County\nRd. #16:\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nOn the morning of 2\/25\/13 after the county commission’s morning work\nsession, my wife and I spoke with Joyce Evans and Bill Slaughter on\nsome of our concerns and new found technical information about road\nabandonment, Georgia state waterways, and what the county and state\nare expected to protect.\n<\/p>\n

\nDuring our conversation we were told that for unexplained legal\nreasons the county would have to give the road back to the land\nowner. At this time my thoughts and questions come back to: Why if\nfor legal reasons do we have to give the land back or away, and why\nare we even having to have a public hearing on this matter, if the\npublic has no say?\n<\/p>\n

\nAlso during this conversation Bill mentioned\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n

\n\n<\/a>\nthe unruly that come\ndown to the river and shoot, litter, allegedly steal, and consume\nalcoholic beverages (which I would like to point out is socially\nacceptable and promoted in our country, and people from all levels\nof social status do it) Then he followed this statement in question\nform. Would you leave your car parked down there, if you were out\nthere enjoying the area? Well my answer was yes! I have for the past\n13 years that I have lived in Naylor and nothing has ever happened\nnor have I ever heard a story about such a thing.\n<\/p>\n

\nI now feel that the county has passed judgment on the people of my\ncommunity and made us river folk out to be bad people. When in fact\nwe are probably some of the most hard working and honest people in\nthe county that still have good morals and values for what is right\nand for what is wrong. Shutting down county Rd. 16 would be wrong.\nIf this location is closed down and taken away from the community,\nthe county will be stripping us of our heritage, culture, and the\nover 100 years of history at this location. The over 100 years of\nhistory alone should save the location.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nBill also stated that the Commission is trying to work a deal or buy\nland from Dr. Acree on the hwy 84 side next to the big ugly bridge\nand turn it over to park and rec. When we asked if he would publicly\nannounce this at the public hearing he said no. Therefore leading me\nto believe this statement was made to get us off the Commission’s\nback.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhich brings me back to where the county spends its money on park\nand rec. Many of the parks I have seen built generally are located\nin lower income areas, where crime rates are higher and more\nserious. Would I leave my car parked here while I went on a long\nwalk out of sight of my car, no. Just based off personal experience\nand word of mouth from local citizens Im scared to go, afraid that I\nmight get mugged, approached for handouts, offered illegal drugs,\nget shot, or caught in the middle of some unruly people’s bad\ndealings.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nIf you decide to close the communitys public access on public county\nRd 16 , Old State Rd. You will have not listenened to the public’s\nwishes for the denial of this proposal, as per the estimated count\nof 330 citizens’ signatures on the petition against the road\nabandonment. From a legal stand point the county has the power to\ndeny this request. The citizens have spoke, the choice is yours.\n<\/p>\n

\nSincerely,\n<\/p>\n

\nBrett Huntley\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Received today; he sent it to all the Commissioners. -jsq To the commission on the proposed idea of road abandonment on County Rd. #16: On the morning of 2\/25\/13 after the county commission’s morning work session, my wife and I spoke with Joyce Evans and Bill Slaughter on some of our concerns and new found […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,48,477,2,19,88,469,478,3,449,479,450,55],"tags":[480,327,453,258,487,482,452,8720,484,483,8771,8701,8699,10,8709,481,454,455,489,8702,91,12,7,8734,8770,488,485,4,8772,486,8700,8767,8773,6,8768,8727,90],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-code-enforcement","category-ga-dnr","category-government","category-history","category-lowndes-county-commission","category-naylor","category-solid-waste","category-transparency","category-transportation","category-trash","category-vlpra","category-water","tag-12-february-2013","tag-25-february-2013","tag-alapaha-river","tag-bill-slaughter","tag-bird","tag-boat-ramp","tag-brett-huntley","tag-code-enforcement","tag-family","tag-fishing","tag-ga-dnr","tag-georgia","tag-government","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-history","tag-hotchkiss-bridge","tag-hotchkiss-crossing","tag-hotchkiss-landing","tag-joyce-evans","tag-lake","tag-lcc","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-lowndes-county-commission","tag-naylor","tag-phillip-connell","tag-picnic","tag-regular-session","tag-solid-waste","tag-swimming","tag-transparency","tag-transportation","tag-trash","tag-valdosta","tag-vlpra","tag-water","tag-work-session"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-1g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}