Lake Ralph Hall moving along

Thomas Taylore and UTRWD say that negotiations with Fannin County have worked out commissioners' concerns with Lake Ralph Hall's effects on the county, and that planning could advance soon.

For the past couple of years, county commissioners have opposed the construction of the lake because the plan did not meet their requirements on four specific areas: economic development, the handling of roads and infrastructure, the reduction of taxable land, and the distribution of surface water throughout the county.

Taylor says now all of those concerns have been worked out with the county.

"Challenges are to be sensitive to the environment to be sensitive to the neighborhood be sensitive to the desires of property owners so that it will be a benefit."