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Legislative Session number- 84

Bill Name: SF1867

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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