Providing for an alternative annexation process to replace orderly annexation under certain orderly annexation infeasibility conditions; providing for designation of growth areas for future annexation of unincorporated territories contiguous to the municipal and not subject to an orderly annexation agreement requiring city services, specifying certain limits and petition filing requirements and providing for town or adjacent municipality objection to the designations; specifying certain hearing requirements; providing for annexation by ordinance of property in the growth areas; requiring the establishment of joint planning boards with sole authority relating to planning and land use, specifying certain board membership representation requirements; providing for alteration of growth area boundaries; authorizing a switch to the orderly annexation process at any time during the alternative process; modifying the proceedings initiation procedure, specifying certain supporting document requirements; requiring and providing for a notice of intent to annex to the town and the county; modifying certain hearing requirements; authorizing the municipality to negotiate with the county for orderly annexation purposes in counties without an organized township; modifying certain conditions for annexation by ordinance; expanding the requirement for municipal reimbursement to the town for annexed taxable property
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