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A map of Los Angeles County with the city of Los Angeles in red, showing the Shoestring Strip annexation, which reaches south to the San Pedro area and the Port of Los Angeles. A "shoestring annexation" is a term used for an annexation by a city , town or other municipality in which it acquires new territory that is contiguous to the existing ...
The City of Calgary, for example, has in the past annexed the communities of Bridgeland, Riverside, Sunnyside, Hillhurst, Hunter, Hubalta, Ogden, Forest Lawn, Midnapore, Shepard, Montgomery, and Bowness. [4] [5] Another example of an annexation in Canada occurred when the city of London, Ontario annexed Wortley Village in 1890. [6]
In Canada, the 1990s saw the forced amalgamation of several municipal entities in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Ontario and Quebec into larger new municipalities. Even in cases where a central city merged with its suburbs, the amalgamated city was legally a new municipality, even if it was given the central city's name and was in effect a defacto annexation by the central city.
The Ankeny City Council approved a large annexation Monday that could push the city's borders even further north. Ankeny City Council approves annexation north of 126th Avenue near Alleman Skip to ...
The annexation would have effectively amalgamated St. Albert and Strathcona County with Edmonton. Alberta's Local Authorities Board (LAB), a predecessor to the Municipal Government Board , granted the annexation in 1980 but excluded St. Albert, Sherwood Park and lands in Strathcona County to the east of Sherwood Park, thereby preventing any ...
Annexing, eventually developing 1,984 acres could shape north-central Indian River County. Several questions should be asked before it's too late.
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The city government also entered into a settlement with the DeKalb County government to settle a dispute, paving the way for the annexation. [ 34 ] Due to the taxable revenue involved, there was a dispute over whether the area would remain in the DeKalb County School District or transition to Atlanta Public Schools . [ 35 ]