Some neighbors in Milton say adding multi-use trails along Georgia Highway 9 would destroy landscaping and harm their neighborhoods.
The state is widening the highway from two lanes to four lanes from Alpharetta into Forsyth County.
Plans call for an eight-to-ten-foot-wide multi-use path on each side of the road.
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But Ike Yancy, who lives in The Regency at Windward Square townhomes, says the multi-use paths would wipe out the trees at his subdivision’s entrance.
“What we have no absolutely no understanding about is taking out our mature landscaping and mature trees that we have that’s part of our neighborhood,” he said. “We believe it’s gonna affect our property values and generally it’s gonna cause all kinds of damage.”
He says a standard four-to-five-foot-wide sidewalk would save most of the trees.
Angela McIntyre, who also lives in the neighborhood, says there’s no need for multi-use trails on this stretch of Highway 9.