Indiana Supreme Court to Hear Fortville Annexation Case
By John Shoup, Director, IALFÂ
When looking at the history of annexation disputes, the cases have almost exclusively involved attempts of municipalities to annex adjacent urban territory. Adjacent urban territory has the same characteristics as land already within the municipal limits and shares a need for the same types of services and use restrictions common to dense populations.
In the last few years, annexations have changed. There have been a number of recent involuntary annexations involving large tracts of farmland. These annexations may be due to the fact that farmland requires few services, so there is little additional cost incurred by the municipality by bringing that land into the city.
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