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Board discusses annexation options and concludes expansion would be costly and provide limited immediate benefit
Summary
Board discussed possible annexation of nearby properties; chair said the territory would add only a few houses and a couple of businesses while requiring street lights, road maintenance and sewer upgrades, making annexation likely expensive and currently unviable.
The chair led a detailed discussion of a potential annexation area and described the likely costs and limited near-term benefits. She said the area under consideration would yield only a handful of homes and a few businesses and that the town would be required to add street lighting, maintain more roadway and potentially expand sewer capacity; "It's a lot," the chair said of the infrastructure and cost requirements.
She noted that existing sewer capacity might only allow modest additional connections (she referenced an engineering comment that the current system might add about 30 houses) and that some areas would require pumping upgrades; she concluded that annexation would be expensive and should be explored further only if substantial business growth was likely.
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