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Committee approves annexation interlocal agreement with Cleveland after debate over referendum language and road annexations
Summary
Bradley County committee voted to approve an annexation interlocal agreement with the City of Cleveland as written after debate over language on annexation by referendum and a newly added road-annexation section. A substitute motion to strike language referencing property "outside the urban growth boundary" failed to gain a second.
The Bradley County Urban Growth Boundary Committee voted Thursday to approve the proposed annexation interlocal agreement with the City of Cleveland after committee members debated language tied to annexation by referendum and a newly added section addressing annexation of roads.
The committee’s substitute motion to remove the phrase “outside its urban growth boundary” from sections 2(a) and 2(b) — which would have prevented referendum annexations both inside and outside the mapped growth boundary for the term of the agreement — did not receive a second and was not considered. "I offer a substitute motion to amend section 2 a and section 2 b of the proposed annexation interlocal agreement by striking outside the urban growth boundary from both sections," said Mr. Kreis, a committee…
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