Legislators studying issue of involuntary annexation
Friday, December 5th, 2008
By Staff
RALEIGH - Supporters of reforming North Carolina's annexation laws are back to square one.
A state House study committee's recommendation that a moratorium be placed on involuntary annexations died in the Senate earlier this year. Now senators are playing catch-up as staff members and experts on local government offer insights in the state's nearly 50-year-old law that allows cities and towns to expand their corporate limits without the consent of the people they're annexing.
Douglas Aitken, a nonlegislative member of the committee who would like to see the state's annexation laws changed, said he thought the inclusion of senators on the committee speaks well for the fate of the group's eventual recommendations.
"If something comes out of this commission's recommendations to the General Assembly, I just can't see whatever is recommended failing to pass," Aitken said.
Sen. Vernon Malone of Wake County, co-chairman of the commission, said senators are now catching up to what House members on the committee had already learned. He added that the commission would not rubber-stamp the results of the previous House committee.
"I would not want to predetermine what the outcome would be," Malone said. (more…)
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