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When the municipality annexes additional land, township boundaries must be explicitly adjusted to reflect the change; otherwise, the annexation remains in the original township as well as the municipality. [1] [8] [9] Under 1953 case law, a paper township may not be considered an adjoining township for the purpose of dissolving a township. [10]
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]
Laws governing the ability and the extent municipalities can expand in this fashion are defined by the individual states' constitutions. Annexation of neighbouring communities occurs in Canada. The City of Calgary , for example, has in the past annexed the communities of Bridgeland, Riverside, Sunnyside, Hillhurst, Hunter, Hubalta, Ogden ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that racially restrictive covenants were unenforceable, and in 1968, they became illegal. Upper Arlington became a city on February 8, 1941 and annexed surrounding land as its population grew. Most annexation occurred in the late 1940s through 1960.
Millcreek Township (or Mill Creek Township) is a survey township in south-central Hamilton County, Ohio, that also existed as a civil township from 1810 until 1943. Once the most important township in the county, [1] it was largely absorbed by Cincinnati and its suburbs, nominally remaining as a paper township from 1943 until 1953.
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