Columnist John Archibald writes about an eminent domain case. “It’s like death to the life we have had for 100 years,” a member of an affected family said.
, which would take 190-225 feet from the east side of the existing highway, which already divided family land.
“We certainly understand the family’s concerns about some of their homes being impacted, and we have sincerely worked to limit the amount of property needed for the roadway,” he said in a statement . “We have put extensive planning into this project and have specially trained individuals that have determined the amount of land needed. Our goal is to cause the least impact possible in every way.”“It is killing my spirit,” she said, standing beneath ripening red plums.
Veterans Russell Moore and Nathan Moore fear they will become homeless if the state takes their homes on Marengo County land where their family has lived for generations. The road, estimated to cost $760 million and funded by state money through the Rebuild Alabama Act, has long been talked about as a way to spur economic development in the Black Belt, said Harris at ALDOT. It would add lanes from Thomasville to Moundville, completing a four-lane stretch between Mobile and Tuscaloosa.
“We were not told that there would be a median, just that the lanes would be widened,” Andre Fuqua said in a statement from the family. “The chief engineer of the project told us that the change we suggested was not considered solely because it would be too expensive for the state’s pockets, not because of environmental impacts. Nothing in their response explains why they aren’t willing to make that compromise.
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