'Everything changed after Hyundai came': Georgia residents push back against rapid development

“The Hyundai plant in Georgia — once praised by the Trump administration for creating jobs but was later raided by U.S. authorities last September, leading to the arrests of more than 300 Korean workers — is now facing opposition from local residents concerned that rapid development is bringing collateral damage to their community, a local newspaper reported. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a local newspaper based in Atlanta, Georgia, reported Wednesday that residents and community members in Bryan County called for a slowdown in or adjustments to various development plans during a Development Authority of Bryan County board meeting held in February. The Hyundai plant was among the projects mentioned. The county which was once home to more timber tracts and crop fields than people is now developing “too much and too fast” after Hyundai moved in Corey Foreman, a Republican state Senate candidate, was quoted as saying. The paper pointed to rising home prices, worsening traffic and mounting pressure on public infrastructure as key problems tied to the rapid development. Although t

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