By Julie Tappendorf | Municipal Minute
An Illinois Appellate Court recently upheld a municipality’s involuntary annexation of property in Husky Trans, Inc. v. Village of Barrington Hills.
After the village board discussed the possible annexation of two unincorporated parcels of land, it sent notice to the owner that the village board would consider annexing the parcels at a board meeting. The notice also informed the owner that the property would be rezoned to the R1 single family residential zoning district upon annexation. The owner’s attorney sent a response to the village that the owner objected to the forcible annexation, arguing that the parcels did not qualify for annexation under section 7-1-13 of the Illinois Municipal Code because the parcels were not “wholly bounded” by one or more municipalities, forest preserve, or park district property.
Read more here.
Related: “Village Board of Trustees meets tonight,” “Two items of interest on Monday’s Board of Trustees meeting agenda,” “Village posts Annexation Notice,” “Change.org petition posted: ‘Why Barrington Hills should not annex Sutton and the Penny Road Properties.’”
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