Voters in four communities targeted for annexation delivered a split result Tuesday on a proposal to join the city.
) - Voters in four communities targeted for annexation delivered a split result Tuesday on a proposal to join the city, with three areas giving a thumbs up and the other one voting it down.
A “yes” vote in all four areas would have added 25,806 new residents, bringing the total to more than 212,000. City officials projected it would result in a net tax gain of at least $105.7 million over a decade. “We’re bigger than Birmingham,” Stimpson said to a raucous crowd at Kraver’s Restaurant on Leroy Stevens Road, which now is in Mobile.But the vote is more than just civic pride or members of the West Mobile Annexation Commission, which has tried for years to add neighborhoods to the city. Freddy Wheeler, secretary of the group, said supporters never lost hope after earlier annexation defeats.
Stimpson, too, has fought for years to persuade the City Council to go along, suffering a defeat in 2019 before retooling and coming back with an even more ambitious proposal. After the council unanimously approved the plan, Stimpson shifted to convincing residents in the targeted areas that that growing Mobile was not only a good deal for the city but for them, as well.
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