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The annexation was challenged in court and, although found legal, eventually led to legislation in 1980 outlawing strip annexation. Some municipalities rushed to annex before the law took effect, such as Scottsdale, which annexed a 10 foot wide strip enclosing an 86 square mile county island. [6]
Because Ohio law does not forbid townships from being located in multiple counties, [4] a municipality in multiple counties may petition multiple county boards of commissioners to create a single paper township shared among all the counties, or petition to create separate paper townships in each county.
Compared to annexation, the impact of deannexation on municipal boundaries is quite small. A study covering 1950 to 1976 found that deannexations accounted for 1.4% of boundary changes. [ 28 ] 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 ...
The City of Savannah has passed about 57 annexation petitions since 2004, which amounts to more than 100 parcels of land, according to city annexation records. Annexations are becoming an ...
A judge has ruled against the city of Bloomington and said annexation of two areas west and southwest of the city cannot proceed.. Bloomington had sought to extend its boundaries and bring about ...
Jun. 2—The annexation lawsuit between tiny St. Clair Twp. and the city of Hamilton has been "settled in principle" after years of wrangling over how much the township is owed because of faulty ...
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.
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