Dear Editor:
In my opinion, the most important result of our last board of commissioners meeting is a piece of news is that all six of the Barrow County BOC members personally commented on the airport expansion. They all agreed that there are no longer any plans to continue with the airport runway / industrial park project.
The citizens of Barrow County do not want a industrial park or runway expansion in the middle of some of the nicest subdivisions and farms in our county. We already have areas where industrial parks are established and that are accessible to highways for the large trucks that have to come and go 24 hours a day. The existing industrial parks could be expanded with little or no impact on the surrounding area.
As suggested, the best resolution to this situation would be to declare the Seagar’s farm surplus property and put it back on the market so to cut our losses and put our tax money to use on more needed projects, such as repairing roads, having water and sewer capable of serving the existing citizens, etc. The next few weeks will show us if the BOC are men of their word and what they say.
Whatever happened to having public hearings and letting the taxpayers decide how our tax money should be spent?
Sincerely,
Frank Nocera
Winder
