Stacy Carroll
New Member
- Jurisdiction
- Georgia
We live on a dirt section of a county maintained road. The paved portions of the road have fee simple rights of way, the dirt portion has a prescriptive right of way, 35 feet in width. The old bridge over a creek near our property was condemned in 2014 and closed to all traffic since. That left us as the only people living on the western end of the road, a one mile portion. The other end of the road (across the bridge from us a mile and a half) is in a pretty rough neighborhood with a recent murder at a nightclub there. The road on that side ends at a state highway. There is another county road intersecting in that neighborhood that also goes to that highway. The county did nothing when a quarry expanded and did away with the intersecting road. Now that neighborhood only has one way in/out. The county wants to "acquire" part of my property to build a new bridge "in the interest of public safety". The county administrator himself came to me to negotiate. After I was lied to multiple times, I told them to go build their bridge over the @#!#$% quarry. Why do we have to lose land, etc. when the county already had another way in/out that they allowed to be destroyed? My guess is that I am a bug that will be squashed by eminent domain. Is that a pretty fair assumption?