On a remote, mountainous road, some family members and neighbors in Catoosa County are fighting about a locked gate, and whether they can close it to the outside world.
Some residents argued during a commission meeting Tuesday night that they get locked in by the gate, located a couple of hundred feet from the end of Taylors Ridge Road. Sandra Gordy, who lives at the very end of the road, said she doesn’t want to get out of her car in front of the gate when she takes her grandson to school every morning.
“We’re in the woods,” she said. “We’ve got critters. In the dark. There’s no streetlights. There’s no porch lights. There’s nothin’.”
Gordy and a neighbor brought the issue before the commissioners because they want the elected officials to declare the end of the road a public concern. Because if the road is public, the gate can’t stand, making their entrances and exits easier.
The commissioners didn’t make a decision Tuesday night, choosing to table the vote after a heated argument. They did the same thing after a similar argument Tuesday between residents on Misty Meadows Lane.