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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1982.09.21 - 13976September 21, 1982 Miscellaneous Resolution # 82300 BY: Lillian V. Moffitt, County Commissioner - District #15 RE: COUNTY POLICY ON ANNEXATION PETITIONS BY ENTITIES OTHER THAN GOVERNMENTAL UNITS TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen: 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 inter governmental efforts and cooperation, which is to the betterment of the people of Oakland County, that such cooperative efforts include police and fire assistance, zoningand 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 (AP-82-1) for annexation filed by certain individuals who are 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 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 inter-governmental relations and cooperation between local communities; and WHEREAS, the Oakland County Board of Commissioners believes that long- municipalities should not be settled boundaries existing between incorporated disturbed without compelling reasons; 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 Oakland County Board of Commissioners believes that no such rationale has been shown which would justify the upsetting or alterating long established and uniform boundary lines between the Village of Franklin and the City of Southfield, that such boundary line was set at the time of incorporation In 1953, and that such boundary line is a uniform straight line running along approximately 12 and one half Mile Road in an east-west direction, and that the alteration of such a long settled and uniform boundary line would work to the great detriment of the people of Oakland County and to the municipal corporations in southern Oakland County. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners urges and recommends to the State Boundary Commission to act in such a manner as to discourage such private petitions as might serve to alter long established boundaries between incorporated municipal entities and to avoid the establishment of any precedents to the disruption of established boundaries. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners opposes the annexation petition AP-82-1, presently pending before the State Boundary Commission and recommends denial of such petition. Mr. Chairperson, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution. Lillian V. Moffitkv County Commissioner, District #15 #82300 September 21, 1982 Moved by Moffitt supported by Cagney the resolution be adopted. The Chairperson referred the resolution to the Planning and Building Committee. Mr. Aaron objected to the referral. The Chairperson stated it takes 14 votes to sustain the objection, and an "AYE" vote will sustain the objection. AYES: Doyon, Gabler, Geary, Gosling, Moore, Patterson, Pernick, Price, Aaron. (9) NAYS: Fortino, Hobart, Jackson, Kasper, Lanni, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Olsen, Peterson, Whitlock, Wilcox, Caddell, Cagney, Calandro, DtGlovanni. (16) A sufficient majority not having voted therefor, the objection was not sustained, and the resolution was referred to the Planning and Building Committee. Mr. Pernick requested the resolution also be referred to General Government Committee. There were no objections.