Rorschach test or city limit map
While reporting about the city's move to annex an eight-mile stretch of the Urban Loop, several opponents have compared the annexation to a "mouse tail" or a finger (Scoop is not sure which one). While Greensboro has picked up parcels here and there, this annexation would be the longest "appendage" of the city sticking out into Guilford County. Click here to see a map of the proposed annexation area.
In the interest of perspective, Scoop looked around to other cities and gave the following awards for innovative city boundary design:
First Place, Shotgun Award: Tobaccoville (Forsyth County)
This golden leaf town north of Winston-Salem seems to have left a lot of room for growth. Within.
Second Place, Shotgun Award: Walkertown (Forsyth County)
Also in Forsyth County, Walkertown also has peculiar appendages and large gaps. Now you're in, now you're out...
First Place, Alien Crop Symbol Award: Mt. Gilead (Montgomery County)
Presumably concerned with symmetry, this small town south of Greensboro only has two small dimples in their perfect circle.
First Place, Thin Blue Line Award: Cary (Wake County)
Like Greensboro, Cary annexed the width of two roads, Ten Ten and West Lake, to reach a development it wanted to bring into the city.
The city council is scheduled to vote on the loop annexation at their meeting Tuesday. It is items 14-16 on the agenda.
Comments (5)
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I would put High Point up for at least an honorable mention in the "Most complicated governance" award.
Guilford's second city is already i parts of three different counties (Randolph, Davidson and Guilford) and is fixin' for an invasion of Forsyth if it isn't there already.
Posted on April 5, 2005 1:33 PM
High Point's been in Forsyth for years. It's a four-county city.
Posted on April 5, 2005 1:49 PM
While High Point does span the four counties, it's about average in the contiguousness category. There are some drips, drabs and gaps in north High Point, but it's really just a regular city unlucky not to be placed in the center of a county.
Posted on April 5, 2005 4:15 PM
Doug: Does anyone live in the Forsyth part of HP? I've never seen an election return from that county for HP. I have from Davidson (where the mayor happens to live) and from Randolph, but never from Forsyth. I thought they didn't have a good excuse to get a sewer line (or water line, one of the two) up there yet so it hadn't opened up.
Posted on April 5, 2005 10:33 PM
does anyone know why Mt. Gilead's town boundary is in a circle?
Posted on November 8, 2006 3:33 PM