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A related strategy is called strip annexation, which involves annexing a narrow strip that encloses a large block of unincorporated land. Strip annexation was widely used by the municipalities of the Phoenix metropolitan area during the 1970s to preemptively gain control of large areas of land before other municipalities, without having to ...
Municipal annexation is the legal process by which a city or other municipality acquires land as its jurisdictional territory (as opposed to simply owning the land the way individuals do). [1] The annexed land is typically not part of any other municipality.
A study of Texas municipal boundary changes from 2000 to 2010 found that deannexation accounted for only 2.6% of the overall changes in municipal area during the study period. [29] In general, when land is deannexed from a local government, the debts of the local government do not stay with the land, unless a statute provides otherwise. [5]
Oct. 31—LIMA — The Allen County commissioners approved a measure Thursday to approve a special annexation of nearly 10 acres of land in the 2200 block of North Cole Street from American ...
The neighborhood sits between the two municipalities and has been in Juno Beach’s future annexation map since 2008, said Town Manager David Dyess.The move would add 20.6 acres, 25 households and ...
Aug. 7—JAMESTOWN — The Jamestown City Council unanimously approved on Monday, Aug. 7, the annexation of land adjacent to city limit boundaries in Bloom Township for an expansion of the city's ...
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Bellingham is taking the first steps toward annexing a neighborhood along Britton Road on the northeast edge of the city, in an area called Northern Heights that’s part of the designated urban ...