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Al 1:'1%iAAa FAL.4 ♦ . <br />15 <br />AGENDA *I 2b <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Mayor and Town Council <br />FROM W. Calvin Horton, Town Manager <br />SUBJECT: Resolution Identifying Areas as Being Under Consideration for Possible Future <br />Annexation <br />DATE: November 26, 1996 <br />The attached resolution would identify areas under consideration for possible future annexation. <br />The Town identifies areas under consideration as a regular part of its comprehensive annexation <br />study process. <br />Adoption of the attached resolution would maintain the Council's future ability to choose to <br />conduct a Town - initiated annexation. Adoption of this resolution does not require that the <br />Council pursue a T own - initiated annexation, however. We note that this resolution was adopted <br />in essentially the same form in previous years. <br />Background <br />North Carolina State Law regarding annexation includes a requirement that the Planning Board or <br />the Council adopt a resolution identifying an area as being under consideration for annexation at <br />least one year prior to adopting a resolution of intent to annex that area, if the annexation <br />effective date is not to be delayed one year after adoption of an annexation ordinance. The <br />resolution of consideration remains effective for two years. This requirement does not affect the <br />Town's ability to act on petitions for annexation. <br />Discussion <br />The Urban Services Boundary of the Town has been identified in the 1986 Land Use Plan as the <br />limits of the area to which urban services will be extended; we do not anticipate annexing beyond <br />that line. We do anticipate annexing all of the area within the Urban Services Boundary at the <br />time that each increment of the area meets statutory standards. (An accompanying report in <br />agenda item 12a reviews the status of areas under general consideration for future annexation.) <br />Map 1 shows the area under consideration for future annexation as the balance of land between <br />Chapel Hill's existing corporate limits and the Urban Services Boundary as identified in the 1986 <br />Land Use Plan. <br />