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A Grassroots Effort to End forced Annexation Abuse in North Carolina

"We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just,
must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience."
--Thomas Jefferson

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Annexation Law
(explained by Michael Crowell)

NC Annexation Statutes

Annexation Guide
by Town of Cary

Nolan v Weddington
NC Court of Appeals

Nolan v. Marvin
NC Supreme Ct ruling

Barefoot v. Wilmington
US 4th Circuit ruling


Editorials & Opinion Articles

NC Cities Go On Annexation Binge
By Michael Lowrey
May 02, 2003

BORDER WARS!

Annexation a Top ’06 League Priority
Carolina Journal Article
by Donna Martinez

 N&O Letter to the Editor
by Allan Parnell

"The View From the Other Side of the Tracks"
wbur.org - Boston NPR

Cedar Grove Institute:
Press coverage of exclusion

News & Observer.com articles:
UNC center pushes annexation


UNC Center for Civil Rights Examines Annexation Inequity

 

The studies, articles and commentaries I have provided below address the "talking points" that the pro-forced annexation crowd uses to sway the legislators. I will be adding more so check back regularly. The truth is on our side, but it has to get to the legislators and the public.

Analysis of H524 compared to the NCLM's "20 Point Proposals" for annexation reform: HERE

NC Institute for Constitutional Law North Carolina Municipal ...
This paper discusses the history and purposes of (1) municipal annexation in North Carolina, (2) primary constitutional and statutory requirements of ... www.ncicl.org/article/17 - 10k

JLF's Chad Adams discusses forced annexation

"Annexation in North Carolina"
WUNC Radio:
click here

Policy Studies & Research

Studies on Involuntary Annexation:

Annexation Activity and State Law in the United States, Rex Facer

An Assessment of Municipal Annexation in Georgia and the United States

Annexation in Indiana: Issues & Options

Do Suburbs Harm Cities?

Government Amalgamations, Discredited Ideas  R. Bish, C.D. Howe Institute

"UNI-GOV" - History & Outcome
P. Hardy, MTAS

The Role of Urban Planning in the Decline of American Central Cities
By Wendell Cox

Changes and Challenges Facing County Government in North Carolina

Municipal Annexation and Metropolitan Colonialism - (an interesting history of urban change and annexation)

Incorporation, Abolition, & Annexation
by David Lawrence, UNC SOG

Studies from Cedar Grove Institute:

Fighting Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction: A Double Standard

The Persistence of Political Segregation: Racial Underbounding in North Carolina

Poverty & Race Research Action Council:
"Minority Exclusion in Small Town America"

Annexation Gerrymandering:
UNC Center for Civil Rights

Invisible Fences

ARS Guide to Consolidation
Annexation as a Tool for Regional Consolidation

 

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Legislation, Enacted and Studied

2009 Study Commission
Joint Commission recommendations

Legislative Review Committee;
1998 Annexation Study - Meeting Minutes

January 15, 1998
February 12, 1998
March 19, 1998
April 27, 1998 (summary)

Rules Committee Meeting Minutes,
05/30/07
2007 H86 substitute; Annexation Study

Incorporation, Abolition, and Annexation (NC School of Gov. paper)

UNC School of Government review of Annexation Legislation 1996 - 2006

UNC SOG webpages on annexation
(includes links to historic documents)

NC Bar Association Newletter
(includes an article explaining NC Annexation)

Policy, Opinions, & Papers

Rusk, Orfield, & Municiperialism
S. Hayward, Policy Review Magazine

Measuring Happenstance
Wendell Cox refutes David Rusk

Howard Husock's views on David Rusk and Municipal Expansion : City Journal Article

The Case Against Annexation & Consolidation
By Randal O'Toole - Thoreau institute

"Flawed and Undemocratic "
John Locke Foundation Spotlight

ANNEXATION ISN'T THE RIGHT TOOL
May 15,2005 - John Hood - JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION

NC Rural Center - Smalltown Fact Book
(This is full of municipal and rural statistics. Very good history of incorporation in NC)

"The North Carolina State Grange encourages our legislators to review the current laws governing the annexation powers of our towns and cities." To read it -  Click Here

Reader Decries 'Municiperialism'

Annexation Bills Indicate That Something is Broken!
by Brian Voyce

Duke University Prof. Michael Munger
 on
Forced Annexation

Other Studies on Related Subjects:
FEAR OF VOTING:
DIFFERENTIAL STANDARDS OF JUDICIAL REVIEW OF DIRECT LEGISLATION

Tiebout Dynamics: Residential Neighborhood Adjustment to a Decline in the Quality of Local Public Services

Financing Regional Infrastructure
(This study shows the lack of evidence for the argument for consolidation of services)

NC Experience with Municipal ETJ
David Owens, UNC School of Government



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