Decatur has delayed releasing its updated annexation plan — originally scheduled for this week — until next Monday. Chances are the revised version won’t look a whole lot different from the map the city originally released earlier this year, or what the city’s wanted to annex since the 1950s.
Eighty-one percent of the proposed annexed area is commercial, most of it north and northeast of the city’s current limits. The plan adds 1.6 square miles to the city’s longtime dimensions of 4.2 square miles, and would increase the population (currently 19,000) by 7,310 including over 700 school-aged children.
Decatur’s commission will vote on the map Dec. 15.
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