How would the city go about annexing? Would we need a charter amendment? Do
the suburbs have a choice? This is an interesting topic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Strand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Terrell Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Minneapolis Issues"
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Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2001 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Mpls] Annexing a few suburbs?
> I know Indianapolis has also expanded to the size of
> the county. This appears to have worked very well for
> them! David Strand, Ward 7, Loring Neighborhood
> --- Terrell Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Barbara Nelson writes:
> >
> > > Seems to me that the city tried to annex some
> > inner ring suburbs
> > > way back when, ....
> >
> > > ... My second question is, why is the
> > opportunity "lost forever"?
> >
> > [TB] Seattle has annexed out in to the suburbs. Its
> > been done in Ohio
> > although I don't remember if its in Cleveland or
> > Cincinnati. The City of
> > Honolulu includes the entire island of Oahu.
> >
> > We have an obscene number of municipalities in
> > Hennepin County, in the
> > entire metro area, each with its own Police Chief,
> > Fire Chief, City Clerk,
> > City Manager, City Council. Not only is it
> > extremely expensive, it makes
> > planning much more difficult than it should be.
> > Merging all of the
> > municipalities in, say, Hennepin County would create
> > some tremendous
> > efficiencies.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Terrell
> >
> >
> > _________________________________
> > Terrell Brown
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