HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1982.10.21 - 13415October 7th, 1982
Miscellaneous Resolution #
By Planning and Building Committee - Anne M. Hobart, Chairperson
In re: County Policy on Annexation Petitions by Entities Other Than
Governmental Units
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemem
WHEREAS the Village of Franklin is an incorporated municipal corporation
situated within Oakland County, having been incorporated pursuant to action of
the County Board of Supervisors and the recommendation of the County Board of
Supervisors Boundaries Committee in 1953; and
WHEREAS the City of Southfield is an incorporated municipal corporation
within Oakland County having been incorporated pursuant to statutes and by the
County Board of Supervisors on the recommendation of the County Board of
Supervisors Boundaries Committee in 1958; and
WHEREAS Oakland County is comprised of many incorporated municipalities
existing adjacent to each other; and
WHEREAS these various local governments have worked in harmony for
many years and have developed and shared intergovernmental efforts and cooperation,
which is to the betterment of the people of Oakland County, that such cooperative
efforts include police and fire assistance, zoning and planning coordination,
uniformity of traffic regulations and controls to foster the well-being of the citizens
of Oakland County; and
WHEREAS there is presently pending before the State Boundary Commission
a petition (82-AP-1) for annexation filed by certain individuals who ore owners of
a single 20.14 acre parcel within the Village of Franklin to annex said parcel to
the City of Southfield; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners recognizes the right
of each individual to petition his government and its administrative agencies and
firmly and fully supports the right of petition and the right of each property owner
to assert all rights and privileges of an individual citizen and as an owner of
property; and
Resolution #
County Policy on Annexation Petitions by Entities Other Than Governmental Units
Page 2
WHEREAS the hearing on such petition will involve great expense to the
citizens of Oakland County, and great expense to the people of the State of Michigan,
and that such hearing on a petition filed by an individual parcel ownership will result
in disruption of long established intergovernmental relations and cooperation between
local communities; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners believes that long-
settled boundaries existing between incorporated municipalities should not be disturbed
without compelling reasons of public interest; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners believes that settled
boundaries are in the best interest of the health, safety and welfare of the people
of Oakland County and serves to best foster those cooperative efforts and inter-
governmental relations between various citizens and incorporated and unincorporated
entities within Oakland County; and
WHEREAS the State Boundary Commission is charged by law with the
consideration of se veral criteria upon which it will base its decision as to the
grant or denial of annexation, attachment or detachment; and
WHEREAS the Oakland County Board of Commissioners believes that where
a proposed annexation petition will disturb long-settled boundaries between incorporated
municipal entities, the State Boundary Commission should give significant consideration
to the effect such change, without a compelling reason of public interest, may have
upon the ability of local governments to cooperate, to zone and plan their peripheral
areas, and should give due consideration to the potential mischief which may result
by the alteration of a long-settled and uniform boundary line and the potential
detriment to the people of Oakland County and to the municipal corporations involved,
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners urges and recommends to the State Boundary Commission that in its
deliberation of petitions for proposed annexation, attachment or detachment between
incorporated municipal entities where such boundaries have existed and been settled
for a considerable period of time, that the State Boundary Commission give prime
and significant consideration to the potential for disruption by reason of alteration
or modification of such boundaries and give significant consideration to the effect of
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County Policy on Annexation Petitions by Entities Other Than Governmental Units
Page 3
such alteration or modification upon the cooperative efforts and intergovernmental
relations between incorporated municipalities which have co-existed along common
settled boundaries for a significant period of time.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioner's
urges such review based upon the public interest in annexation petition 82-AP-1,
presently pending before the State Boundary Commission, a petition by individual
parcel owners to modify a boundary line between incorporated municipalities which
has been settled, established and uniform for a period in excess of twenty-five
(25) years.
MR. CHAIRPERSON, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee,
move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE
Wallace F„ Gable,i', Jr,Chcirperson
REPORT October 21, 1982
BY GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE-Wallace F. Gabler, Jr., Chairperson
RE: Miscellaneous Resolution 4'82308, County Policy on Annexation Petitions
by Entities Other Than Governmental Units
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The teneral Government Committee, by Wallace F, Gabler, Jr., Chairperson,
having reviewed Miscellaneous Resolution #82308, reports with the recommendation that
the resolution be adopted with the following amendment:
The first WHEREAS paragraph on Page 2 to read, "the hearing on such petition
will involve great expense to the citizens of the Village of Franklin and the
State of Michigan in excess of $15,000, and that such hearing on a petition
filed by an individual parcel ownership will result in disruption of long estab-
lished intergovernmental relations and cooperation between local communities,"
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move
the acceptance of the foregoing report.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
21st day of 1982 October
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LYNiii) ALLEN, County tlerk/Register of D,
#82308 October 21, 1982
Moved by Hobart supported by Gabler the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Hobart supported by Whitlock Resolution #82308 be adopted.
Moved by Gabler supported by Lanni the resolution be amended in the
first WHEREAS paragraph on Page 2 to read, "the hearing on such petition will
involve great expense to the citizens of the Village of Franklin and the State
of Michigan in excess of $15,000, and that such hearing on a petition filed by
an individual parcel ownership will result in disruption of long established
intergovernmental relations and cooperation between local communities."
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the amendment carried.
Vote on resolution as amended:
AYES: Peterson, Whitlock, Wilcox, Cagney, Gabler, Geary, Gosling, Hobart, Lanni,
McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Olsen, Page, Patterson. (15)
NAYS: Aaron, DiGlovanni, Doyon, Fortino, Moore, Perinoff, Pernick, (7)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, Resolution #82308, as amended,
was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal,
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
Miscellaneous Resolution #82308 adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
at their meeting held on October 21, 1982
with the original record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, i have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
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