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Committee moves annexation of 16 county pockets amid farmers’ pleas to exempt two parcels
Summary
Mayor Patrick Collins and staff advanced the annexation of seven pockets (16 parcels) to the full council despite strong public comment from the owners of Y Fresh farm and neighbors urging delay or removal of Parcel 4 and the southern parcel of Pocket 7 until an urban-farm code is codified.
A Cheyenne committee voted to recommend to the full council the annexation of seven county 'pockets' totaling 16 parcels, advancing the mayor’s multi-year effort to fold fully surrounded county parcels into the city despite sustained public pleas to exclude two agriculture parcels.
Mayor Patrick Collins told the committee the administration has sought to limit financial impacts of annexation — staff no longer would require curb, gutter and sidewalk improvements or immediate connections to city water and sewer unless property owners choose to do so — and that planners intend to zone the farm parcel AG so current agricultural uses may continue. Collins acknowledged some uses that are currently…
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