Citizens air views on multi-use trails

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Opponents and proponents of two proposed multi-use trails in the county recently got a chance to offer their input on the issue. Not that their comments moved the dial any, as the commissioners had already made up their minds on the two proposals, evident by their votes several years earlier to reject both trails, which decisions they had reaffirmed only two weeks earlier via a resolution. That resolution, adopted by the Jefferson County Commission on Feb. 1, memorialized the board’s positions on the Duke Rail Trail and Sun Trail Multi-Use Trail, originally voted down in 2019 and 2022, respectively. Even so, the commission allowed the citizens an o