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V ATTACHMENT 1 >> PLANNING STAFF REPORT SUBJECT: • Mechanics of Annexation DATE: January 26, 1998 Background State Law provides that areas that are urbanizing or becoming urbanized should receive the urban services provided by towns and cities. These municipal services include police protection, fire protection, garbage and trash collection, and maintenance and lighting of public streets (excluding State roads). Annexation permits the Town to extend its boundaries and provide Town services to urbanizing areas in an orderly fashion. Methods of Annexation There are three primary methods that the Town may use under State Law to annex land into the Town's corporate limits: - Town - Initiated Annexation in Accordance With Statutory Standards, - Contiguous Annexation Petition, and - Non - Contiguous "Satellite" Annexation Petition. The Town has annexed land using all three of these annexation. This report provides further information on each of these annexation methods. Mechanics of Annexation Town - Initiated Annexation in Accordance With Statutory Standards Without a petition from property owners, cities and towns with 5,000 or more people, may undertake to annex by ordinance certain areas that meet statutory standards of contiguity, population density, and intensity of development. These annexations are subject to the following standards: 1) The area must be contiguous. Contiguous means any area that either abuts directly on the municipal boundary or is separated by a street, railroad, or utility corridor, by a creek or river, or lands owned by the municipality or the State of North Carolina. 2) At least one - eighth (1/8) of the total boundary of the area must coincide with the municipal boundary.