
{"id":127,"date":"2007-04-11T16:15:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-12T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/04\/11\/chilton-asks-legislators-to-oppose-de-annexation-bill\/"},"modified":"2007-04-11T16:15:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-12T00:15:50","slug":"chilton-asks-legislators-to-oppose-de-annexation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/04\/11\/chilton-asks-legislators-to-oppose-de-annexation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Chilton asks legislators to oppose de-annexation bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton has sent a letter to Reps. Joe Hackney, Verla Insko and Sen. Ellie Kinnaird asking that they oppose a bill introduced by Rep. William Faison to undo an annexation of the Highlands neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the neighborhood, annexed along with several other neighborhoods in 2005, had petitioned Faison to help undo the annexation.<\/p>\n<p>Chilton said even though he personally voted against the annexation, he did not think the state should be &#8220;second-guessing&#8221; the town&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He did not forward the letter to Faison, he said, after reading his comments in a newspaper over the weekend. Faison introduced House Bill 1601 in late March 27. He represents most of Orange County, including the northern notch of Carrboro.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems like bad public policy to me,&#8221; Chilton said in an interview Tuesday. If the rules need to be re-written, he said, they should be re-written for the rest of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Hackney said last week he did not think the bill would pass. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to complaints about the way the annexation was handled, Highland residents have expressed concern that the town was not moving fast enough on a new northern fire station and that the town did not annex the roads.<\/p>\n<p>Chilton said the fire station is in the design phase and the town has hired an architect. The station, he said, was going &#8220;full-speed ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The town will eventually take over the roads, he said, but wants the state Department of Transportation to improve the condition of some of the older more depreciated roads first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton has sent a letter to Reps. Joe Hackney, Verla Insko and Sen. Ellie Kinnaird asking that they oppose a bill introduced by Rep. William Faison to undo an annexation of the Highlands neighborhood. Residents of the neighborhood, annexed along with several other neighborhoods in 2005, had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}