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Greensboro's population to grow by 15,000 people after annexation

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Here are the areas being annexed

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26223831.PDF

This part of the annexation brings Greensboro all the way to the I-40/business 40 split

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26792831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26793831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26794831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26795831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26796831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26797831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26798831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26799831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26800831.PDF

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26801831.PDF

The city is even annexing east of I-840 towards Burlington

http://www.news-record.com/assets/PDF/BJ26802831.PDF

here is the full overview which shows Greensboro's water & sewer coverage and future annexation areas. As you can see, Greensboro has plenty of land to annex. Greensboro is annexing 10,000 people in just a very small portion of those future annexation areas. The light green areas a Greensboro's current city limits. Theoretically If Greensboro were to annexed all the water-sewer areas on the map, the city would be geographically more than twice the size it is today (well over 200 square miles). Greensboro would stretch more than 20 miles across and would also be about the size of Charlotte geographically. So over time you can image what Greensboro's population would be once the city does annex all those areas. over the next 20 or 30 years, if those areas have the same populational density as within the current city limits, Greensboro could have over half over 500,000 people within those boundaries.

http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/Businesses/ut.../utilitymap.htm

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City council is in full support of annexation and has taken the first steps to bring in more that 10,000 people in the city

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...STAFF/309050010

This website clearly shows what is being annexed

http://images.greensboro-nc.gov/annexationviewer/default.htm

FOX 8 NEWS

http://www.myfoxwghp.com/myfox/pages/Home/...mp;pageId=1.1.1

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Greensboro needs to seriously consider becoming proactive with there water supply and searching out other means inwhich they can provide water to a city of 243,000 and stop this nonsense of annexation. 15,000 is only going to increase this burden already on the water supply that is not sufficient for a city our size. I really think this water situation is going to be the downfall of Greensboro's economic boom if they don't find alternative means. Seems they are more concerned about staying ahead of Winston-Salem in population than they are in providing services to the citizens they already have. Greensboro needs to deal with this water shortage before annexation needs to occur. This is only going to get worse in years to come. :ph34r:<_<

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I think if they have a vast majority of people who are willing to fight it they would have a decent chance but they'd have to be willing to pay for some high priced lawyers. I would think that the fact that NC is one of a few remaining states with such annexation laws says they would have a good case. There is even a state wide effort to reform the annexation laws in NC. As I am not trying to plug anyone's website or opinions on the matter here I think if you do a GIS for "NC annexation laws" you should get some good info on the process, the laws and the groups for and against it.

I like how the city wants the people in this area (like The Cardinal) to cooperate and support the city's effort to annex them after the whole FedEx disaster.

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I agree that it isn't fair to have people using resources that they don't pay for but I think the bigger issue is "forced" annexation for the sake of statistics. If a majority of the people want it then great but if the majority of the people don't want to be annexed then it shouldn't happen especially if the major reason is to increase the cities population in order to keep up with other cities. It should be voted on by those living in the communities affected by the process.

As I mentioned before I have no personal position on this specific situation but all I've heard from (I guess either I'm not keeping up with what is going on or the media is only showing one side) are residents that are against the annexation. I guess I'd like to hear from some of those who are for it and the benefit they see.

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It's a minor and perhaps dumb reason to prefer being in the city limits, but regardless, I love the ease with which I can recycle. A friend who is merely a mile away but technically in Jamestown has no such service and must take his items to a center, which of course means that most of the time their recyclables simply go in the "trash".

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It's a minor and perhaps dumb reason to prefer being in the city limits, but regardless, I love the ease with which I can recycle. A friend who is merely a mile away but technically in Jamestown has no such service and must take his items to a center, which of course means that most of the time their recyclables simply go in the "trash".
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Annexation has become a municipal ponzi scheme that temporarily bouys revenues but increases long-term municipal liabilities. Growth for the sake of growth? Thats the morphology of a cancer cell. Good luck distributing that precious water further and further out.

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