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County attorneys propose joint planning committee to coordinate annexations after history of disputes
Summary
County attorneys recommended forming a staff joint planning committee and a written protocol to assess proposed municipal annexations earlier, citing a history of contentious utility‑and‑annexation disputes and recent large annexation proposals.
Al Hadid, county attorney, and Sean Moylan, deputy county attorney, presented a policy proposal at the March 17 workshop to establish a joint planning committee and a formal protocol for evaluating annexations and service boundary changes proposed by neighboring municipalities.
Al Hadid reviewed the county’s recent annexation history, citing the water‑utility “water war” settlement adopted in 2007 and a later February 2015 interlocal agreement that governs annexation and utility service around the airport. He said those agreements have shaped where municipalities can provide water and annex territory and gave examples where applicants or cities used voluntary annexation agreements and contested maps to change boundaries.
Moylan told the board the memorandum staff circulated lays out statutory criteria and a practical rubric for how the county…
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