Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Annexation_ A Tool of Exclusion?
Involuntary Annexation is touted as a necessary tool for acheiving healthy cities, environmental protection, and racial equity by David Rusk and others promoting "Sustainable Development".
The UNC Center for Civil Rights and the DC based Poverty & Race Research Action Council have examined the patterns of annexation and ETJ where cities are given broad powers to annex at will and control development beyond the municipal boundaries.
Using GIS-based spatial analysis, mapping techniques and US Census data, they document a pattern of economic and often racial exclusion from cities, while wealthier, revenue generating areas are taken into the tax rolls of cities against their will.
"Minority Exclusion in Small Town America" by James H. Johnson, Jr., Ann Moss Joyner & Allan Parnell
Institutionalized Discrimination
Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities
Racial Apartheid in a Small North Carolina Town
UNC Ctr. for Civil Rights
The UNC Center for Civil Rights and the DC based Poverty & Race Research Action Council have examined the patterns of annexation and ETJ where cities are given broad powers to annex at will and control development beyond the municipal boundaries.
Using GIS-based spatial analysis, mapping techniques and US Census data, they document a pattern of economic and often racial exclusion from cities, while wealthier, revenue generating areas are taken into the tax rolls of cities against their will.
"Minority Exclusion in Small Town America" by James H. Johnson, Jr., Ann Moss Joyner & Allan Parnell
Institutionalized Discrimination
Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable Communities
Racial Apartheid in a Small North Carolina Town
UNC Ctr. for Civil Rights
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