Sandtown closer to annexation (Atlanta: property, business, road)

[Gulch]

Originally Posted by jero23

No, it doesn't. You need to read up on Georgia's annexation law. It is NOTHING like Texas' annexation law. It is a convoluted mess created to prohibit a large city like Atlanta to have basically few options to annex areas like Sandtown.

For all, Sandtown already receives water and sewer service from the City of Atlanta Watershed Management, so it makes sense for it to become apart of the city. Water and sewer connections are one of the hardest infrastructure components to handle in service delivery agreements and usually it takes years to connect recently annex areas to their parent municipality water & sewer service.

I just posted the law and it seems like the options are there as long as the local residents are in agreement to be annexed.

[jero23]

There are weird stipulations such as the problems with the 100% & 60% method involving the verification of names on deeds and voter registration and that is the hold up for the Sandtown annexation petition. When someone dies and their name is on the deed then it present a host of problems. If the executor of the will name may not be on the deed. The state annexation law needs to be cleaned up because that present problems for those methods of annexation.

[South Fulton Guy]

Where do you get this stuff on deeds? Most people have mortgages hello? Mortgages and deeds of trust both grant the title for your property to your lender until the loan is paid, so unless you own your house outright most people under your arbitrary standard could not demonstrate they were the landowners?

Furthermore annexation statutes specifically O.C.G.A. § 36-36-32 which addresses the 60% annexation does not even mention deeds at all. Landownership is confirmed by the tax commissioner's records not deeds.

You are misleading people and ought to be ashamed of yourself...

[jero23]

Originally Posted by South Fulton Guy

Where do you get this stuff on deeds? Most people have mortgages hello? Mortgages and deeds of trust both grant the title for your property to your lender until the loan is paid, so unless you own your house outright most people under your arbitrary standard could not demonstrate they were the landowners?

Furthermore annexation statutes specifically O.C.G.A. § 36-36-32 which addresses the 60% annexation does not even mention deeds at all. Landownership is confirmed by the tax commissioner's records not deeds.

You are misleading people and ought to be ashamed of yourself...

No, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for accusing me of lying when everything I have said about these annexations is true. Why don't you stop pondering and do research on why the process of this particular annexation petition is taking so long instead of making unfounded Johnny-come-lately posts. FYI, the East Lake and associated properties (Quillion Avenue), South Oaks at Cascade annexations will have a public hearing on Thursday night at 6PM at Atlanta City Hall.

[Gulch]

Regarding South Fulton annexations, it really is amazing how disjointed Fairburn, Union City, and Palmetto's boundaries are:

[Saintmarks]

Originally Posted by Gulch

Regarding South Fulton annexations, it really is amazing how disjointed Fairburn, Union City, and Palmetto's boundaries are:

Someone neutral in a high position of government (governor?) should appoint some task force to declare Fulton County out of the municipal services business and clean up these boundaries and divide the rest of south Fulton between the existing cities. Fulton County as a municipality in competition with the cities is almost dead anyway, the city of South Fulton is becoming less and less viable. Why not go ahead and clean everything up?

[aries4118]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

Someone neutral in a high position of government (governor?) should appoint some task force to declare Fulton County out of the municipal services business and clean up these boundaries and divide the rest of south Fulton between the existing cities. Fulton County as a municipality in competition with the cities is almost dead anyway, the city of South Fulton is becoming less and less viable. Why not go ahead and clean everything up?

Amen.

[bu2]

Originally Posted by Saintmarks

Someone neutral in a high position of government (governor?) should appoint some task force to declare Fulton County out of the municipal services business and clean up these boundaries and divide the rest of south Fulton between the existing cities. Fulton County as a municipality in competition with the cities is almost dead anyway, the city of South Fulton is becoming less and less viable. Why not go ahead and clean everything up?

The state legislature could do that. The county could do that, if it chose, in cooperation with the cities.

The worst solution would be the city of South Fulton wrapping around those cities in convoluted ways.

[bu2]

Atlanta's proposal, that didn't make it through the legislature, had pretty smooth, logical boundaries in South Fulton.

[jero23]

I've heard that a several more petitions from residents and commercial property owners on or very near Cascade Road corridor have been submitted to enter Atlanta in the past couple of weeks. Many want no part of this current South Fulton proposal. Also word is the Fulton Industrial Boulevard business owners have been informed about their lack of ability to vote on their own properties on this referendum. It might come down to some interesting politics when it impractical proposed entity is up for vote in November.