The Mobile City Council on Tuesday approved what amounts to a truce with Semmes over the competition for new residents.
) - The City Council on Tuesday approved what amounts to a truce with Semmes over the competition for new residents.that could bring nearly 26,000 additional residents into Mobile. Mobile Chief of Staff James Barber told FOX10 News that city leaders have set July 18 as the tentative date for that election, although he added that it has not been finalized.
“Every time there’s an annexation, we have to rewrite the legal descriptions,” he said. “That really requires us to have to go back before council to pass another resolution to call for the election in those areas. And so, you can see where that can be kind of chaotic.”about Mobile’s annexation plans: “We’re being good neighbors.”
“Personally, as a property owner, I don’t think any property owner should have to go to any other municipality for their permission to join which city they want to be in,” Van Hook said. Mobile and Semmes are both trying to expand but are taking different approaches. Mobile has lost about 2 percent of its population since 2020 and is hoping to reverse that with four separate referendums in areas that would increase the population by almost 26,000.bring in one property at a time“I know I’ve used the term many times called Swiss cheese, because you see, you know, a whole bunch of holes that are in our area,” he said. “Our goal, overall, is to fill in those areas.
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