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Site SearchCary, N.C. — The Cary Town Council voted Thursday night to kill a proposal for forced annexation just before a scheduled public hearing on the matter, officials said.
The proposed annexation covered 10 areas and 160 homes.
Before the council met, some homeowners in the outskirts of Cary held a protest outside the Town Hall.
Organizers called it the “Cary Tea Party.” Protestors waved signs and dressed in Native American apparel. They said the event was held to let officials know that “taxation without representation is unjust” – the same statement made famous by Americans during the 1773 Boston Tea Party.
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God bless.
Rev. RB
February 13, 2009 7:56 p.m.
February 13, 2009 1:56 p.m.
What you fail to realize, maybe, is just because they are now surrounded, doesn't mean they were when the subdivision, as you prefer to call it, was built.
Either way, folks are tired of being forcefully annexed. This is statewide. Fuquay is trying to do the same to their neighbors.
Basically, town A wants to annex as much as possible before town B can get it. Darn free for all.
February 13, 2009 1:08 p.m.
So now Subdivisions are Communities?
I understand they do not what to pay Cary taxes, I don't eother
February 13, 2009 12:57 p.m.
They can opt out anytime for the water and sewer, the link I provided details this. What you need to do is complain to the State who sets these rules, Cary was well within the Law.
You know as well as I do that the developers and the City had every intention to annex this area, and the people still bought their houses anyways, Swift Creek Fire station will be over burdened, so I guess you take your chances. What I find amuzing is the Sop cary sites and yet this is happening all over North Carolina.
February 13, 2009 12:54 p.m.