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CARY
WILL HOLD SPECIAL MEETING ON ANNEXATION
CARY, NC
– The Cary Town Council will hold a special meeting this Friday to
discuss involuntary annexation plans in light of Holly Springs’ decision
last night to adopt a utility services boundary agreement with Cary.
The special meeting will be held on Friday, December 19th
at
4:30 p.m.
in the Council Chambers of Town Hall.
Options
before the Council include adopting the utility services boundary
agreement with
Holly
Springs
, moving forward with the current plan to
involuntarily annex areas 20 and 21, moving forward with plans to annex
only one of the two areas at this time, or withdrawing altogether the
current involuntary annexation plans for now.
“While
I cannot predict what the Council will do on Friday, I can say that our
hope has always been to resolve this and all boundary issues through joint
action,” said Town Manager Bill Coleman.
“Last night’s action by
Holly
Springs
is certainly a positive step towards realizing
that hope.”
Coleman
noted that whatever
Cary
does, it will be towards ensuring the future
protection of the good faith investment
Cary
citizens have made in infrastructure over the
last 15 years to serve the area, including more than $60 million in water,
sewer, and parks.
On
November 24, 2003
, the Cary Town Council adopted a Resolution of
Intent to involuntary annex 1,874 parcels of land south of its current
Town limits in order to create a permanent boundary between
Cary
and
Holly
Springs
. That
action, which affected 2,396 acres with an estimated population of 4,722,
came after
Holly
Springs
failed to act on a joint utilities services
agreement between the two municipalities in November and, instead, began
private talks with land owners in the proposed
Cary
service area about annexing into
Holly
Springs
.
This
history on a boundary between Cary and Holly Springs dates back more than
a decade when Wake County government proposed a service boundary between
the two in unincorporated Wake. Since
then,
Holly
Springs
has disputed much of the area proposed to
develop within
Cary
, and so
Cary
led an effort to resolve the dispute by working
to develop a joint utility services agreement.
During the two-plus years that the staffs of the two jurisdictions
worked toward an agreement,
Holly
Springs
continued to annex land well into
Cary
’s proposed service area.
For
current information on
Cary
’s annexation efforts, please visit www.townofcary.org.
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