DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — When Gladness Groover’s family purchased a home in Lindmoor Woods in April, they had no idea their new neighborhood was in the path of a major highway expansion.
The home, located in the Lindmoor Woods neighborhood next to Interstate 285, is in the attendance zone for Laurel Ridge Elementary School.
A few months later, she heard the neighborhood chatter about a major expansion of I-285. The project would add two barrier-separated express lanes in each direction along 13 miles of the interstate, from Henderson Road to just south of the I-20 interchange.
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