Andrew,
What a small world! Yeah, I graduated Tech in 2000
with a BS in Management Science and currently live in
Pittsburgh.
Back on topic though :), I thought the county had to
agree to any annexation. Down in Montgomery County an
area wanted to incorporate and become the town of
Prices Fork, but somehow the county voted against it
and the point became moot. I know this is slightly
different, but I ran into similar issues locally with
the expansion of a town (Blacksburg) into
unincorporated county territory (Montgomery).
DC is another interesting case altogether, as you've
aluded to. It was supposed to be a square (diamond)
shape, but for some reason gave Virginia's part back
to the state and it later became Arlington and part of
Alexandria.
Any idea if the old borders are still marked anywhere?
Brendan
--- "Andrew T. Patton" <
andrew@...>
wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 09:38:28 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
> >The weird exception is Virginia,
> >where when one enters a town or city
> (incorporated),
> >they actually leave the county! So technically, a
> >city like Roanoke, which is completely surrounded
> by
> >Roanoke County, is technically an enclave.
>
> When I moved to Virginia, I found this to be very
> weird. I now live
> next to a section of Fairfax County (that has an
> enclaved part called
> Fairfax City but which is not part of Fairfax
> County) called Chantilly
> which is not really a municipality rather just the
> name of the Post
> Office.
>
> It is also interesting that Cities in Virginia have
> the power to annex
> land from nearby counties. Alexandria use to be the
> South part of the
> Virginia Section of DC, But after it was returned
> back to Virginia it
> annexed land from Fairfax County that doubled its
> area.
>
> pithokie@..., I assume from your email address
> that you are a
> student or alumni of Virginia Tech. I graduated VT
> in '96.
>
> -Andrew
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> andrew@...
>
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