[Ord. No. 510-2024, 5-7-2024]
This Chapter sets out the required review and approval procedures for unincorporated contiguous and compact areas to be annexed into the corporate limits of the City of Neosho.
[Ord. No. 510-2024, 5-7-2024]
A complete application for the annexation of territory shall be submitted to the Neosho Development Services Director in a form established by the City (Annexation Application) along with a Verified Petition (Voluntary Annexation Petition), along with a non-refundable fee that has been established by the City to defray the cost of processing the application and petition. No application and petition shall be processed until the application and petition are complete and the required fee has been paid. The application and petition shall be made and shall be signed by all owners of all fee interests of record of all tracts of real property located within the area to be annexed. The petition shall include a legal description describing the boundary of the property requested for annexation. The City may enter an appropriate pre-annexation agreement which conditions annexation upon appropriate zoning.
[Ord. No. 510-2024, 5-7-2024]
The Neosho Development Services Director shall prepare a staff report that reviews the proposed annexation application for impact such annexation could have on surrounding areas within the corporate limits, the conforming nature of the area with the Comprehensive Plan and the proposed best land use classification. Such report shall be provided to the applicant at least five (5) days before the public hearing to be held by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Public hearings before the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council shall be scheduled with such hearing before the City Council to be not sooner than fourteen (14) days nor later than sixty (60) days after the receipt of the annexation application and petition.
[Ord. No. 510-2024, 5-7-2024]
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Newspaper Notice. Notice of the time and place of the scheduled public hearing before the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation at least fourteen (14) days prior to each public hearing, said notice to include the legal description of the property to be annexed.
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Written Notice. The City will attempt to notify, by mail, all owners of property abutting the proposed territory to annexed and owners within one hundred eighty-five (185) feet of said property.
[Ord. No. 510-2024, 5-7-2024]
All territory which may be annexed to the City shall be classified as a District "R-1," First Dwelling House District until approval by the City Council for the best land use District. The Planning and Zoning Commission shall consider the annexation petition in light of the Comprehensive Plan, the comments of the public hearing and general needs of the City to include the proposed annexed area's effect on surrounding land within the City. After such consideration, the Planning and Zoning Commission shall make a recommendation to approve or disapprove the annexation and for the land use classification district if other than District "R-1," First Dwelling House District. The Planning and Zoning Commission recommendation shall be provided to the City Council and the applicant at least five (5) days before the meeting at which the City Council considers the annexation and land use classification, if applicable.
[Ord. No. 510-2024, 5-7-2024]
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The City Council shall consider the annexation request at a public hearing during a regular meeting. After fourteen (14) days have elapsed since the holding of the public hearing, the City Council may approve (said approval to be by ordinance) the application and petition if it determines from the submitted evidence, public comment and testimony that:
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Due and legal notice has been given by publication and written as required herein;
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No private rights will be injured or endangered by the annexation;
3.
The City has the ability to furnish normal and customary services to the area to be annexed within a reasonable time; and
4.
The public will benefit and annexation is in the best interest of the City and thereby the application and petition should be approved and the land use classification that serves the best interest of the City be determined.
[Ord. No. 510-2024, 5-7-2024]
After fourteen (14) days have elapsed from the public hearing for annexation the City Council shall take up an Ordinance to approve the annexation and land use classification if applicable. Any ordinance passed annexing territory into the corporate limits shall contain the legal description of the land to be annexed and shall instruct the City Clerk to cause three (3) certified copies of the ordinance to be filed with the County Clerk of Newton County, Missouri, and to cause a certified copy of the ordinance to be recorded in the office of the Newton County Recorder of Deeds. The ordinance shall be effective fifteen (15) days after final passage.