Dogtown Wire News - City Annexing More Land

City Annexing More Land

Written by Scott Miller

Friday, 15 August 2008

At the NLR Planning Commission meeting Tuesday the most controversial item was the rezoning of land outside and adjacent to the city limits to the west and northwest of the current City limits. The rezoning was for property along the proposed Northbelt Freeway extension (connecting I430 to I440). The rezoing failed on a tie 4-4 vote. For a complete descritption of the vote see the article in the NLR Times

The interesting part is the revelation, that the City is planning to annex this land in the future and Pulaski County has agreed to allow the annexation.

Anyone have an opnion on whether the City should be annexing more land into the City with our current level of police, fire and other City services?

Win the new iPhone from Apple! Enter Here

2 Comments



nlrlablover August 15, 2008	Is this area near the WM landfill site? If so, it would make sense. If you can annex land, in a landlocked city, do it. We can always use more green space and areas for industrial development. I believe the area you are speaking of is undeveloped or vacant land. Therefore, no police or fire would be neccessary unless a forest fire or something strange happened.


Big Dog Daddy August 16, 2008	Spoken like a true son of an Alderman. The City can't even take care of what we have now. Much less add to the burden.