County Schools Superintendent: Atlanta “Uninterested” in Annexing Druid Hills
Decatur Metro | October 2, 2014 | 12:00 pmInteresting article up on the AJC. Here’s how it gets started…
Some neighborhoods in unincorporated DeKalb County near Emory University are unlikely to be annexed by the city of Atlanta, said county schools superintendent Michael Thurmond.
Fielding questions after giving a speech about the state of the school system Tuesday, Thurmond told a crowd at Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston that he’d inquired about the annexation interest of the Druid Hills Civic Association.
May I suggest Mr. Thurmond would be the last person informed of any plan to annex Druid Hills and its schools?
This is a total crap piece of “journalism.” Someone who knows someone in Atlanta might have heard something? Okay. Talk about muddying the waters.
Annexation Methods:
1st – the 100 percent method. Under this approach, municipalities have the authority to annex qualified contiguous property when 100 percent of the property owners request inclusion into the municipal boundaries.
2nd – the 60 percent rule and can be used only by municipalities that have a population in excess of 200.
3rd – by resolution and referendum. This method can be used in cases where the property is found to be contiguous to the municipal boundary, is not currently receiving water, sewer, fire or police from another government entity, no part of the area lies within the boundaries of another municipality, and is in general, developed for urban purposes
4th – by local act of the General Assembly. This method is applicable in cases where the acreage of the annexed area is more than 50 percent residential in nature.