Annexation: Rebuttals & Resources

The studies, articles and commentaries I have provided below address the "talking points" that the pro-forced annexation crowd uses to sway the legislators. I will be adding more so check back regularly. The truth is on our side, but it has to get to the legislators and the public.

Policy Studies & Research

Studies on Involuntary Annexation:

ANNEXATION ACTIVITY AND STATE LAW IN THE UNITED STATES, Rex Facer

An Assessment of Municipal Annexation in Georgia and the United States

Annexation in Indiana: Issues & Options

Do Suburbs Harm Cities?

Government Amalgamations, Discredited Ideas R. Bish, C.D. Howe Institute

"UNI-GOV" - History & Outcome
P. Hardy, MTAS

The Role of Urban Planning in the Decline of American Central Cities
By Wendell Cox

Changes and Challenges Facing County Government in North Carolina

Municipal Annexation and Metropolitan Colonialism - (an interesting history of urban change and annexation)

Incorporation, Abolition, & Annexation
by David Lawrence, UNC SOG

Studies from Cedar Grove Institute:

Fighting Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction: A Double Standard

The Persistence of Political Segregation: Racial Underbounding in North Carolina

Poverty & Race Research Action Council:
"Minority Exclusion in Small Town America"

Annexation Gerrymandering:
UNC Center for Civil Rights
Invisible Fences

ARS Guide to Consolidation
Annexation as a Tool for Regional Consolidation

Other Studies on Related Subjects:

FEAR OF VOTING:
DIFFERENTIAL STANDARDS OF JUDICIAL REVIEW OF DIRECT LEGISLATION

Tiebout Dynamics: Residential Neighborhood Adjustment to a Decline in the Quality of Local Public Services

Financing Regional Infrastructure
(This study shows the lack of evidence for the argument for consolidation of services)

NC Experience with Municipal ETJ
David Owens, UNC School of Government

Legislation, Enacted and Studied

Legislative Review Committee;
1998 Annexation Study - Meeting Minutes
January 15, 1998
February 12, 1998
March 19, 1998
April 27, 1998 (summary)

Rules Committee Meeting Minutes, 05/30/07
2007 H86 substitute; Annexation Study

Incorporation, Abolition, and Annexation (NC School of Gov. paper)

UNC School of Government review of Annexation Legislation 1996 - 2006

Policy, Opinions, & Papers

Rusk, Orfield, & Municiperialism
S. Hayward, Policy Review Magazine

Measuring Happenstance
Wendell Cox refutes David Rusk

Howard Husock's views on David Rusk and Municipal Expansion : City Journal Article

The Case Against Annexation & Consolidation
By Randal O'Toole - Thoreau institute

"Flawed and Undemocratic "
John Locke Foundation Spotlight

ANNEXATION ISN'T THE RIGHT TOOL
May 15,2005 - John Hood - JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION

NC Rural Center - Smalltown Fact Book
(This is full of municipal and rural statistics. Very good history of incorporation in NC)

"The North Carolina State Grange encourages our legislators to review the current laws governing the annexation powers of our towns and cities." To read it - Click Here

Reader decries 'municiperialism'

Annexation Bills Indicate That Something is Broken!
by Brian Voyce

Duke University Prof. Michael Munger
on Forced Annexation

ANNEXATION STUDY AMENDMENT417kb

StopNCAnnexation A Grassroots Effort to End forced Annexation Abuse in North Carolina

StopNCAnnexation
A Grassroots Effort to End forced Annexation Abuse in North Carolina