to make improvements on i-20. a public meeting will be held today for public input about the project. that meeting starts at three at the bossier civic center on benton road. and you'll have three chances this week to provide feedback on the proposed plans to build an i- 49 inner- city connector in the heart of shreveport. there are four proposed paths... plus a no-build option on the table. it's new this morning with ktbs 3's sara machi. she joins us now with more on the plans... and how it wilaffect residents in the construction's path. sara... what's on the table. ed and chrissi, attendees can come and go as they please during the 2- hour open house- style meetings. right now... the plan calls for a new elevated highway... approximately 3.6 miles long and costing up to an estimated 300-million dollars.. to connect the i-49 and i-20 interchange with i-49 north near i-220. however... a growing group of allendale residents are organizing against the plan. instead they want to utilize the current loop around shreveport on 1-220... in hopes of saving money... and their homes. "Don't displace your people just to make this out a raceway for cars to get to somewhere. There are other ways to do it." dorothy wiley made shreveport her home after hurricane katrina swept through new orleans... now the proposed interstate 49 inter-city connector... could force her on the road again... along with her neighbors. "All it's gonna do is put us in another old, torn-down neighborhood where we'll have to come in as citizens and rebuild, meet new neighbors, and start over again." concerned by the plans... wiley and her neighbors reached out to shreveport architect kim mitchell for guidance. "Nowhere in the history of the interstate system has an interstate gone through a neighborhood and done anything than make that neighborhood worse. I don't quite understand why in our public process, the citizens of Shreveport haven't been told that. Particularly the ones to be most affected in Allendale." representative roy burrell says one of the main motivaters for the project... is money. he says allendale is already economically depressed and this roadway could bring upwards of 600-million dollars a year through shreveport, instead of around it. "This is all new money. This is not rechurched moeny from Shreveport or the local area. This is actually new money comeing from the north and from the south that's passing through Shreveport." as for the allendale residents... burrell says the fuller center built houses in the project's path knowing that construction, and relocation was a possibility.. a claim wiley denies. "We warned them early on that there's a possibility the I49 connector would be restudied and built buy they built anyway in the potential path." "No, we were never told that and who would just throw away that much money. I'm going to be honest here. Politicians are the only ones who would waste that kind of money." wiley and her group want shreveport residents to opt for the no-build option. this would send traffic west around shreveport on i-220. kent rogers with the northwest louisiana council on governments says public comments at this week's meetings will be taken into a final proposal which will be handed over to the federal highways administration, the epa, and the louisiana department of transportation and development. if authorities move forward with the connector... we could see them break ground as early as this time next year. if residents pick the no-build... the group will have to explore the loop option. reporting live in the studio, sara machi, ktbs 3 news. what about people outside of allendale? will this affect them? wiley says allendale would lose not just homes... but many churches too. those are attended mostly by people outside of allendale. plus, building such a massive structure costs a lot of money. traditionally... the federal goverment funds 80-percent of such construction. local and state governments foot the remaing 20- percent of the bill. however... if you consider i-49 north... federal money accounted for less than half that project's total. a percentage hasn't been worked out yet for the connector, though. good information, thanks sara. the first meeting is tonight at 8 at our lady of the blessed sacrament catholic church at 15-58 buena vista street. wednesday's meeting is at 11 at mount canaan baptist church at 16-66 alston street. thursday... you can find more information at the meeting at noon at the greater shreveport chamber of commerce at 400 edwards street. you can find more information on the website... eye-49 shrevport dot-com. police have identified human remains found in central louisiana's