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CopyrightCopyrightPosted Dec 12, 2008 19:02 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Copyright by sepreece Parent article: Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
Well ya. Everythings built to standards.
And usually the small communities are built with a expectation that they'll get absorbed by the city as the city extends it's boundries every decade or so.
Quite often these communities try to resist getting absorbed legally through lawsuites and whatnot once they realise the drop in quality of services and increased costs that are associated with getting absorbed into the larger city. That and the drop in quality of education with the combined increase in cost per child that you get by being tied into a larger school district is one thing that people tend to especially go to arms about.
A few places have successfully resisted, but it's a minority.
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Copyright Posted Dec 12, 2008 19:11 UTC (Fri) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]
My experience is that there are people who do resist annexation, usually strictly because of taxes. There are also typically people who want to be annexed, usually because they want the enhanced services that the city provides.
Obviously, specific circumstances will affect how people feel. I don't personally know of situations where annexation represented a downgrading of services, but I'm sure they exist. Usually the resisters claim that they don't want the enhanced services (often including better-funded schools, access to park districts and libraries, etc.).
But, again, circumstances vary...
Copyright Posted Dec 12, 2008 19:54 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Probably you have a better city government. Ours sucks.
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