RALEIGH (AP) ó Reformers at the General Assembly have to wait a while longer for their chance to change North Carolina’s 50-year-old land annexation laws, which can force landowners into communities and taxes they didn’t want.
A House judiciary committee hearing scheduled for Tuesday was postponed until Wednesday. No reason was given. The House is in negotiations over a new state budget and has a lengthy debate schedule on Wednesday.
The annexation hearing could take hours as lawmakers consider more than two dozen amendments and try shaping a measure that can pass this summer.
The measure doesn’t allow affected residents to vote on whether to accept annexation, something sought by protest groups and opposed by municipal officials.