Dougherty County Attorney Spencer Lee took off his lawyer hat Monday morning to address the County Commission “as a citizen” who is working to promote the creation of a continuous trail system from Radium Springs in south Dougherty County, north to Pirate’s Cove in Lee County and west along a Rails-to-Trails corridor to Sasser in Terrell County.

Lee joined Albany-Dougherty Planning Director Paul Forgey in discussing the advantages of utilizing $80,000 in special-purpose local-option sales tax money to create a master plan for the greenspace trails project that both say would bring economic development to the community.

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