The Parkwood Annexation Report is now available on the city of Decatur’s website.

All of the city associated revenue (taxes) to costs (police/fire, streetlights, sewer, etc) come out easily net positive for the city ($152k vs. $22k in Year 2).  However, the school system seems to be a bit of a different story.  Though the projection of revenue to the cost of students is net positive the first 5 years (shown below), it’s hard to ignore that the gap between the two shrinks from around $100k in Year 2 to just $27k in Year 5, as the number of students increases from 19 to 31 in the annexed area.

Decaturish (who gets the hattip on this post) reports that the city commission is scheduled to vote on the Parkwood annexation in late April.

The annexation requests keep rolling in.

There are two new annexation requests on the Decatur City Commission’s agenda for this evening.

The first is a partial parcel annexation in the Parkwood neighborhood.  The second is an annexation request for seven parcels along Conway Road, including the Waldorf School at 1151 Conway Road.

Also of note, annexation-wise, it looks like the Decatur Planning Commission is scheduled to take up the larger scale annexation request of the Parkwood neighborhood at their next meeting on Tuesday, April 8th.  Their agenda is included in tonight’s Decatur City Commission meeting packet.

Ann points to this updated map on the City of Briarcliff Initiative Facebook page that says the initiative has been encouraged to defer to existing city’s annexation plans.  I’ve reached out to the city to see if they have any official response.

Decaturish has a great, in-depth article on an annexation request included on the Decatur City Commission’s agenda for next Monday, so I won’t duplicate efforts.

The request is being made by residents of the Parkwood neighborhood, which has long been bisected – in many cases right through the center of properties – by the Decatur city line on the west side of the city (Google Map).  There’s a map showing the city line running through the neighborhood on page 5 of their submitted petition.

Anyway, back to the Decaturish article.  I’ll just get you started…

A group of Parkwood neighborhood residents wants the city of Decatur to annex their homes.

Andy Vocaire, spokesman for the Parkwood Neighborhood, said homeowners filed a petition with the city last week.

The city posted a copy of the petition on its website. To read it, click here.

City Commissioners will consider accepting the petition at their  Monday meeting. If the annexation effort is successful, it could add 76 homes to the city of Decatur.

Map courtesy of Parkwood Garden Club website

From the county-by-county section of Friday’s AJC…

Decatur Schools Superintendent Phyllis Edwards said that given the city’s renewed focus on annexation, “It looks to me we’ll have to build another school or build on an existing campus.”

Last spring Decatur schools projected that total enrollment would swell to over 6,000 by 2018, but Edwards admitted those numbers are now outdated.

Neither annexation nor the city’s at least five planned mixed-use developments figured into those original projections.

Edwards added the only existing campus with room to build is Winnona Park Elementary. Bill Banks for the AJC