Some residents from the Zion Community in Kemper County say they are once again asking supervisors to pave a main roadway in their community.

Zion-Hampton Road is located in the far southwestern part of the county.

"It's time for us to get something done," said resident Cornelius Parks. "We are taxpayers and we are in the Zion Community and they have forgotten about the Zion Community in Kemper County."

"I've got a lot of people that come from different places that come down this muddy road and it would help my business if it was blacktopped," said business owner, Danny Liles.

With 14 residences, two businesses and a community center roughly one mile down this road, residents say they want to know why this road isn't paved and some others are.

"It's the only community center in the county on an unpaved road," said Parks. "It's been put on the back burner and they tell us money is not there. But instead we find other communities where it's less residents and their road is paved up to a mile or two miles. It's a political thing. It's time out for politics."

However, supervisors say road paving is not about politics, but instead, priorities.

"If we have some extra money, each district, each supervisor in that district, he decides," said board president Mike Luke. "Kind of makes that decision on what he thinks is most important in his district. He brings it back before the board. Pleads his case. And most of the time, it's approved by the board."

Residents of the community are offering to pay half of the cost to pave the first mile of Zion-Hampton Road. Kemper County supervisors are looking into whether or not this would be legal.