N.C. House considers changing annexation law
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
By Staff
RALEIGH - A House committee on Wednesday began studying the issue of whether the General Assembly should change the nearly half-century-old law that allows most cities and towns to involuntarily annex property.
"There's no balance in the law," said Doug Aitken of Moore County, president of Fair Annexation Coalition, an organization opposed to involuntary annexation.
Aitken is a public member of the House Select Committee on Municipal Annexation.
"The law is heavily weighted in favor of the municipality," Aitken said.
The committee heard from David M. Lawrence, a professor at the UNC Chapel Hill School of Government, who talked about how today's law came about and some of the requirements that cities and towns must meet in order to annex an area.
In 1959, the General Assembly approved the framework of what is the current law, although lawmakers have made some modifications to the law since. (more…)
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