Annexation requests from three

Fayette cities drew mixed reactions from the County Commission in its

first ever review of annexation requests.

State statutes and case law

in the past have left annexation decisions entirely up to the cities.

But the Legislature passed a new law in 1997, House Bill 489, requiring

cooperation between cities and counties on a variety of fronts. Among

those was a requirement that cities submit annexation requests to the

county governments affected and gather input as part of the deliberation

process.

A series of court cases failed

to strike that provision from the law.

Commissioners reviewed requests

to annex almost 150 acres combined into Fayetteville, Peachtree City and

Tyrone last week, and while they have reservations about the requests

in Fayetteville and Peachtree City, commissioners said they don't have

nearly enough information to render an opinion on one in Tyrone.

The group voted to send the

Tyrone request