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January 8, 2008

City Council Sends Request For Extratrerritorial Jurisdiction Extension To Committee

The Raleigh City Council sent a request to Wake County to extend the City's Extraterritorial Jurisdiction (ETJ), to the Council's Comprehensive Planning Committee.

The request to extend the ETJ covers approximately 6,000 acres and consists of the following six areas; following existing ETJ lines, existing City limits, urban service area boundaries annexation agreement boundaries and property lines and road centerlines.  State of North Carolina law allows the City of Raleigh to extend its ETJ up to three miles beyond the existing city limits subject to the approval by Wake County.

The last request to expand the ETJ was approved in 2001. Since then several large tracts outside of the Raleigh's ETJ have been annexed by the City. The extension of the City's ETJ would allow better management of the development and annexation of land within the City's short-and long-range urban service area. The City continually receives inquiries for new development in areas served by the City of Raleigh Public Utilities in the northeast and southeast urban service areas.

The extension also would allow a more orderly transition from Wake County to City of Raleigh regulations and services. The ETJ extension would allow the City to guide expected urbanization of these areas and ensure future growth and development are built to City standards.

The City Council also adopted an annexation policy that states the City of Raleigh will not accept annexation petition requests outside the existing Raleigh ETJ unless the petition meets one of the six exceptions.
The exceptions are:

• Existing developed property requiring emergency connection to the City's water or sewer lines;
• Property within Durham County identified through mutual annexation agreement as being in Raleigh's urban service area;
• Property in the area between I-540 and the Strickland Road and Falls of Neuse Road where development will meet The city's Falls Lake watershed development policies;
• Property in an adjacent municipality's ETJ that through an annexation agreement modification transfers the property to Raleigh's ETJ;
• Property that is publicly owned; and,
• Property that involves a parcel of land that is split by the existing ETJ lines.

Prepared by:
Chris Riley
Senior Public Affairs Specialist
Public Affairs Department

For More Information Contact:
Mitchell Silver
Director
Planning Department
One Exchange Plaza, Suite 304
Raleigh, NC 27602
919-516-2626

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