As previously reported, a majority of businesses along Rio Circle to the east of the Decatur city limits want in.  But it’s not part of Decatur’s Annexation Master Plan.  An AJC blurb has reaction from City Manager Peggy Merriss…

The Rio Circle commercial district recently filed a petition for annexation into Decatur. Roughly a half-mile east of Decatur’s current border, Rio Circle has long been on Avondale Estates’ annexation map, with city manager Peggy Merriss insisting, “We have consistently maintained that [Decatur] would respect that plan.”

But 41 of 54 private property owners representing 80 percent of the land signed the petition which Merris said was “unsolicited” by the city. Nevertheless city commissioners could approve it, though no date’s been set for a vote.