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What happens to properties along major road projects like Spout Springs Road widening
Guide to right of way purchasing process
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Traffic moves along Spout Springs Road at Capitola Farm Road in South Hall in spring 2018. - photo by Scott Rogers
Widening Spout Springs Road will take two or three years of hard labor, more than a hundred million dollars and require small mountains of dirt and asphalt to be shoveled around South Hall from 2019 to 2021. Problem is, that’s the straightforward part. Since April 2017, Hall County and its contractor, Moreland Altobelli, have been at work nailing down right of way for the road — the land along the sides of the two-lane road that’ll be needed to bump it to four lanes with a median. With the condemnation process in the works and public umbrage with the process surfacing in neighborhoods along the roadway, Jeff Joyner, who heads up right of way acquisitions for engineering firm Moreland Altobelli, and Hall County staff walked through the right of way process with The Times.