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Report: Hall road projects fairly spread among residents
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A civil rights and “environmental justice” draft report shows areas with minority and poor populations aren’t being shut out of planned Hall County road projects. “The overall conclusion is the number of projects is not inordinately disproportionate to either (targeted) areas or nontargeted areas when compared to the total population,” said Sam I. Baker, senior transportation planner for the Gainesville-Hall Metropolitan Planning Organization, Hall’s lead transportation planning group. “The document is an assessment of how we have been doing so far in incorporating and benefiting all (residents) and making sure that any adverse impacts are not disproportionately borne by only certain segments of the population,” he added.