It took three years, but two grants totaling $6 million have been finalized to repave more roads in Peachtree City, Fayetteville, Tyrone and unincorporated Fayette County.
The Fayette Board of Commissioners voted 5-0 on April 21 to accept the funding from the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Surface Transportation Block Grant Program, which the county had applied for in 2017. The grant was divided into two portions: $2,896,312 will go toward county SPLOST project 19TAF and another $3,113,444 is allocated for project 19TAG.
Affected areas include portions of Sandy Creek Road, Grady Avenue, Tyrone Road, Peachtree Parkway and Robinson Road. The county and the municipalities had already approved intergovernmental agreements to provide 20 percent of the total construction costs in local matching funds, plus any overages. The original grant application was for $9.6 million to repave 25 miles of roads, but the ARC only approved funds for 18.9 miles of that, and split the funding between two fiscal years.
Fayette County will oversee the completion of all of the projects; Croy Engineering was selected as the contractor.
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