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supervisors are generous in the time they allot to citizen comment.
In their November and December meetings they patiently sat through iterations and re-iterations of resident concerns: safety; fear that a paved Yancey Road will attract traffic as a cut through between U.S. 522 and Route 231; love of the trees which form a canopy; and a desire to save the rural character of the county.
Many of the same concerns were expressed in August by those who opposed the paving and widening of the Route 231 side of Yancey Road. They lost and that part of Yancey Road has already been widened and paved. At issue now is the mile of dirt road that is left and for
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