The Greensboro City Council approved three annexation and original zoning requests at the Tuesday, Aug. 16 meeting, and more of those requests are coming.
The City Council also approved motions to hold public hearings for five annexation requests at the Tuesday, Sept. 20 City Council meeting.
The current annexation laws in North Carolina restrict cities from annexing property except when the property owner requests annexation. So approving annexation requests are just about the only way for a city to grow in size.
It has long been said that the only direction Greensboro can grow is to the east, and these five annexation requests certainly support that.
All five requests are for areas that if the annexation is approved will become part of East Greensboro. The City Council has been approving most but not all annexation requests that come before it.
It appears that after growing to the west and northwest for decades, Greensboro has changed directions and as predicted is currently growing to the east. The city’s growth during the decade from 2010 to 2020 lagged far behind peer cities in the state – averaging about 1 percent in population growth per year. However, it appears that in the current decade that growth is increasing.
The annexation requests that the City Council has scheduled to hear on Sept. 20 include 13.25 acres at 6001 Burlington Road, 31.4 acres at 222 and 226 Clapp Farms Road, 15 acres at 4513 McKnight Mill Road, 56.2 acres at 4329-4399 Burlington Road and 203-229 Willowlake Road and 30.9 acres at 4007-4013 and 3911 South Elm-Eugene Street.
One of the drivers of this expansion to the east is the Publix Distribution Center off US 70 in the far eastern portion of Greensboro that is in the process of hiring 1,000 workers.
The Toyota battery plant under construction in Randolph County southeast of Greensboro is also driving development in the area. When up and running the Toyota battery plant is projected to have over 1,700 employees.
Maybe once these areas are populated the voters there will boot the city council members that do little but complain about what West Greensboro has.
Don’t hold your breath! They’ll continue to vote for morons.
Growing east is the new and most current strategy but the city wants to push to every county line, anyone who drives our local highway’s see’s that. We are not about facilitating “small town” life like Forsyth county which has sucked resources out of Winston and therefore out of the population race with the rest of the major cities. We are going to run over small towns oak ridge, sadelia, brown summit, whitsett, pleasant garden, because they have never really had identities and the thus fore is ripe for development. Hence a distribution center on every side of the country line.
Hey dumb s$$t you are so full of crap Greensboro can’t take over these towns and you can’t even spell Sedalia properly
No, its “see-dahlia”. That place needs to be run over anyway.
Is this supposed to be something we really care about?
One of the reasons the smaller towns can’t grow their boundaries is in some cases GSO would not support their incorporation unless they put in their charter they would not annex in any direction that would interfere in GSO’s future plans.
Doubt me? Read Pleasant Garden’s charter
Why doesn’t Greensboro annex Sedgefield. Lots of tax dollars there
The cost of providing Sedgefield with city water and sewer is said to be exorbitant.
But as the article states, that would require Sedgefield residents wanting to be annexed. I don’t see that happening.
If the area already has city sewer and water, the chances of it ever being annexed into the city is almost zero. After you have those crucial services there really is little if any upside to annexation for residents. There are no exclusive services for the average “city resident” beyond water and sewer.
I live in Julian and I don’t want to be part of Greensboro or their Agenda 21/30/50 utopia.
Greensboro can’t even control the crime it has within its city limits, I don’t want it out my way.