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Billings council directs annexation for city water after debate over Meadowlark mobile home park
Summary
The Billings City Council voted to require annexation before providing city water or sewer to outside properties, following staff presentations about three service requests and objections from fire and police chiefs about emergency-call and access risks. Council approved a staff direction to follow the annexation policy; waivers will be rare.
The Billings City Council on March 8 directed staff to require annexation for properties seeking city water or sewer service, after a lengthy presentation and debate over three outside properties including Meadowlark Manufactured Home Park.
City Engineer Mac Fogelsong told the council that two of the three requests (Meadowlark and the Blaine property) lie outside the city’s limits-of-annexation map while the McDougall site is already in the green zone and thus more readily annexable. Fogelsong said the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has offered roughly $2.3–$2.4 million in grant funding for a water main that would extend to the Meadowlark subdivision entrance, but that the grant would cover the main and related…
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