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Residents, commissioners discuss potential Plainfield annexation and ‘donut’ concerns; legal limits noted
Summary
Commissioners and residents discussed a pending annexation proposal in neighboring Plainfield, the state-level contiguity requirement for annexation, and community concern that noncontiguous annexation could create a ‘donut’ around Clayton and affect nearby Belleville.
At a Town of Clayton Planning Commission meeting, commissioners and residents discussed concerns about potential annexation activity by the neighboring town of Plainfield and how a pending state-level change could permit noncontiguous annexations.
Doug, a Planning Commission member, explained the current legal baseline as it was described in the meeting: in Indiana, he said, “you cannot annex unless you have a 1 8 contiguous property line,” and that the bill discussed would allow Plainfield to annex a subdivision that is not contiguous with its corporate limits, creating a connecting right-of-way or…
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