the action of the city council to not allow Somerset to annex territory and people on Slate Branch Road is short-sighted and just plain dumb. For annexation to work it needs to include population whereas the efforts by Burnside and Ferguson annex mainly public highway. The thought there is that it may lead to possible annexation of properties in the future but is a back door effort. The process advocated by Mayor Girdler is a fair example of what annexation should be, a trade of city services for tax revenues.
One has to wonder if there is political motivation to prevent Mayor Girdler from achieving success. The skinny on the Mayor is that he can be too authoritarian in his administration but it this is how the council responds then one can understand that.
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