JASPER, Tenn. – Marion County leaders are planning to give up control of parts of two county roads at the request of nearby property owners.
Somehow, Parker Trail Road – a one-tenth of a mile “driveway” off Shellmound Road – was added to the county’s road list in the 1980s.
“I researched all the records in the county registrar’s office and never found evidence of any conveyance to the county for this little road,” County Attorney Billy Gouger said.
There are no minutes from any board meeting indicating it was approved on the county’s road list either, he said, and the surrounding landowners asked in November for the designation to be removed.
County leaders planned originally to abandon the road, but since another landowner has property alongside it, that could cause a problem.