Growth pain: Annexation moratorium wasn’t needed, but law still needs fixing.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
By Staff
It’s no surprise that an attempt to impose a nine-month moratorium on municipal annexations in North Carolina was mugged on its way to passage. What’s surprising is that it got as far as it did.
The moratorium bill actually passed in the House, thanks to tireless and well-organized lobbying by a group that took a reasonable approach to annexation — acknowledging that sometimes it’s a necessary tool of government.
But when the bill got to the Senate in the waning hours of the short session, Majority Leader Tony Rand of Fayetteville was waiting with his billy club, knocking the bill into the dark depths of the Rules Committee, from which it wouldn’t emerge.
We won’t shed tears over that, because the moratorium itself wasn’t all that urgent and isn’t the key issue that needs the General Assembly’s attention.
The more important business is fine-tuning the state’s annexation laws, so the process is equally fair to the government doing the annexing and the people being annexed. As it stands now, the deck is stacked in government’s favor. (more…)
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