Angie Cochrun Gazette: Mount Airy settles $11,000 bill with residents for failed annexation attempt

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Mount Airy settles $11,000 bill with residents for failed annexation attempt

Town and petitioners will split $22,000

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by Angie Cochrun, Staff Writer  

After months of discussion and debate, Mount Airy will soon be paid roughly $11,000 for a roughly $22,000 bill issued in December 2010 to a group of petitioners living in a 600 acre area south of Interstate 70 and east of Md. Route 70 who had a failed annexation bid into the town.

The payment is the result of negotiations between the town and petitioners which wrapped up the first week of July.

“There were some legal issues we wanted to make sure were ironed out to protect us,” said Mayor Pat Rockinberg at the Town Council meeting Monday night.

The agreement states the bill is split 50/50 and will be paid in 120 days.

The petitioners asked the town to annex their property in September 2009, in part, to prevent Carroll County from rezoning the land for commercial development. After the annexation was not successful, a $22,444 charge to the 197 residents living in the 600 acres south of Interstate 70 and east of Md. Route 27 has been the center of discussion and controversy since it was billed by the town for costs related to the request...  http://www.gazette.net/article/20110714/NEWS/707129951/1099/1099/mount-airy-settles-11000-bill-with-residents-for-failed-annexation&template=gazette

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