Protected species add $70,000 to cost of Lee Road project
LITHIA SPRINGS, Ga. (WXIA) -- What would you do with $70,000?
If you pay taxes in Douglas County, here's how you and your neighbors are spending it -- to help protect a type of flower and bat that are in the way of a county project.
As big construction projects go, this is a routine cost of doing business – in this case, making sure the conversion of Lee Road from two lanes to four does not harm the protected flower and bat habitats that were about to be smothered in hot asphalt.