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Applicants behind a controversial annexation proposal involving a Brush Prairie golf course have notified the Clark County Assessors Office in writing they believe they have the necessary support to become part of Battle Ground, City Manager John Williams said.
Gordy Jolma, owner of The Cedars on Salmon Creek, and the Saunders family, who own land near the course, have filed paperwork containing what they believe are signatures from people who own 60 percent of the value within the proposed annexation area in Brush Prairie. Residents of N.E. 149th Avenue in Brush Prairie, which is also part of the proposal, said they believed the applicants were short of the necessary 60 percent.
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This article addresses the array of benefit and cost factors that should be considered when, as part of its growth policy, a city considers the annexation of adjacent or nearby unincorporated areas. Apparently, city officials compare the projected schedule of added tax revenues to the added costs of an assortment of new required services. The repeat-sale price indexes for Cordova, a more affluent Shelby County suburb annexed by the City of Memphis, Tennessee, come from a final edited sample size of 14,967 sales transactions. Each data point represents a pair of sales for a house with the same parcel identification number. Variables collected for each transaction include the prices officially recorded by the Shelby County Clerk, the dates of the transactions, reports of the dollar value ...
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Opportunities abounded in Van Nuys in 1915 and 1916, luring families and businesses that expanded the boundaries of the San Fernando Valley community. In its weekly reports, The Van Nuys News, forerunner of the Los Angeles Daily News, carried stories of bountiful crops being harvested and modern canneries and factories being built. However, no advancement was as significant as the annexation of Van Nuys to Los Angeles, which secured a water supply that ensured the Valley would prosper and thrive. This installment in the Daily News' Centennial series carries excerpts of select stories for those years: Remarkable progress and growth of Van Nuys in 1914
Van Nuys is proud of its 1914 record. A compilation of all the buildings erected during the year and now under construction shows a total ...
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A group supporting the city of Dunbar's annexation of Institute, West Dunbar and Pinewood is opening an informational headquarters to promote the plan.
But at least one area business plans to continue the fight against the measure.
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Grassroots anger of landowners whose property was scooped into nearby cities and towns is leading to a major change in North Carolina's laws allowing municipal annexation.
The state House voted 102-7 to give final legislative approval to the broadest rewrite of the North Carolina's involuntary annexation laws in more than half a century.
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Williamsport Township board members have some valid concerns about past and future annexation reducing the township's tax base. But it's unlikely the trend will change, and it shouldn't.
The annexations vexing township officials are those that involved the areas now known as Heartland Park Topeka and Kanza Fire industrial park. Economic development spurred the purchase and subsequent annexation of the properties.
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There won't be a ribbon-cutting, a parade or falderal if Collierville expands by 4,330 acres at year's end.
Annexation, even into an affluent suburb like Collierville, isn't popular among some citizens who are satisfied with their services and rural lifestyle.
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The board of Williamsport Township in south-central Shawnee County has taken a public stance against the city of Topeka's further annexing property there.
Board member Cindi Bramlage said Wednesday that she and fellow members Hugh Mitchell and Linda Schlesener made a unanimous statement at their Dec. 21 meeting expressing their "strong opposition to the city of Topeka's annexation of areas in the township, especially where the city tried to split roadways or avoid taking all of the roadway it is utilizing for purposes of the new business park.
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Staff Writer
An annexation request has sparked "unified" opposition among two neighboring municipalities and officials with the school district they share.
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A millrace is a channel of water diverted from the main stream, usually to power a wheel.
It is an apt description for what is occurring in the upscale Millrace development in the southwestern tip of Lancaster Township.