The state's Attorney Generals'

office believes Fayetteville violated the state's annexation laws when

it annexed parcels earlier this year near the Fayette Pavilion shopping

center on the city's north side.

Last week, the Fayette County

Commission voted to send a copy of the letter from the Attorney General's

office to city officials.

Commission Chairman Greg Dunn

explained the County Commission had disagreed with the annexation of the

57 acres earlier this year and was trying to find a way to resolve the

dispute without litigation.

When the city annexed the property,

it left a 10 ft. strip of land in each parcel to keep it from being an

unincorporated island.

But in a letter to the Attorney

General, county attorney Bill McNally said the annexation violated the

law.

"While this achieved the

technical goal of not creating an island, it appears to have violated

one of the new conditions of annexation under the 100 percent method;

specifically, the annexation did not bring in all of the parcel owned

Senior assistant Attorney General

Alfred Evans said the two strips are a "violation of the conditions

respecting annexations by application of landowners in a contiguous area

which requires that the entire parcel or parcels of real property owned

Dunn asked that the letter

to Fayetteville ask the city to de-annex the property, which would prevent

the county from seeking a legal solution on the case.

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