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- Title: Matter City Council City Mechanicville v. Town Board Town Halfmoon
- Author : Court of Appeals of New York
- Release Date : January 07, 1971
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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[27 N.Y.2d 369 Page 371] Involved is a disputed proposed annexation between a city and a town. As is all but inevitably the situation, the city would
expand by taking in a small part of the town. The town resists the annexation, seeking to preserve its area and retain its
taxable enterprises. The population of the affected area may or may not welcome the annexation, this being a disputed fact.
The City of Mechanicville has been declining both in population and economic health. A significant, if not a sufficient, cause
for this condition is the constraint of limited boundaries. It seeks to annex from the Town of Halfmoon an adjoining, largely-unpopulated
area of 1,220 acres including a railroad segment and containing a large power plant and a small paper mill. Halfmoon consists
of 17,495 acres, and has a population of 6,307. The city has today a population of about 6,000, down from 8,514 in 1925, and
occupies an area of nine tenths of a square mile. The city hopes that the sparsely populated rural area it wishes to annex
will provide room for [27 N.Y.2d 369 Page 372]