Two Cherokee County governments may square off in court over annexation plans.
The Cherokee County Board of Commissioners voted to sue the city of Holly Springs over the City Council’s Sept. 28 approval of Bethany Properties Group’ plans for a 64-lot subdivision on Vaughan Road. The plan included a request to annex and rezone tracts on Owens Farm Lane and Vaughan Road.
County attorney Angie Davis sent a letter to Holly Springs’ lawyer in early August outlining a number of objections, including contending that subdividing the Owens Farms lane parcel without residents of the Orchards subdivision’s OK is a violation of their covenants. The county also deems the annexation illegal because one of the tracts doesn’t abut city property, running afoul of requirements that annexed property must be contiguous to a city when taken in.
Holly Springs city manager Rob Logan said the city wouldn’t comment because of the prospect of litigation.
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