Getting belligerent about new trail?

“Backed by the power of eminent domain, Federally-funded GetAbout Columbia may be getting belligerent about a new trail.

A brewing battle over the $854,000 trail — designed to connect Moon Valley Road with Old 63 in east Columbia — has rallied neighbors who fear haphazard tree removal, soil erosion, Hinkson Creek runoff, and harm to private property.

“They made it very clear to us from the start that they were going to do whatever they wanted with our property and there was nothing we could do to stop them,” wrote Rachelle McCoy on a public Facebook post, about land her family owns near the new GetAbout pedway. “

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Columbia HeartBeat 30 April 2013.