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A change of heart

By Adam Beam | Published: January 25, 2010
Last week I wrote about 29 property owners who agreed to have their property annexed into Columbia after city officials threatened to turn off their water if they refused. One of the property owners was Pamela Smith. In case you don’t remember her, I interviewed her for my first story on this issue, which was [...]
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Columbia gets (politely) tough

By adam beam | Published: October 26, 2009
My story in yesterday’s paper dealt with the city’s method of annexing “doughnut holes” — those pockets of county land that are surrounded by city land. The city has sent out letters to a group of Farrow Road property owners who own land/property in these doughnut holes and have given them a choice: either come into [...]
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Decoding the City Council agenda

By adam beam | Published: June 23, 2009
Columbia City Council meets tomorrow at 9 a.m., and they have a lot on the agenda: 1. Ordinance No. 2009-030. This approves the 2009-10 budget. It is a formality. Council members have to approve the budget twice for it to go into effect. They approved it once last week. Because of that, council members cannot amend the [...]
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Annex this, not that

By adam beam | Published: June 2, 2009
Columbia officials have a new annexation philosophy, one that I plan to write about in the coming weeks. Basically, the city has divided up the surrounding areas into four categories: Donut holes — those patches of land that are not in the city but surrounded by city land Primary areas — land contiguous to the city that [...]
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Doughnut holes

By adam beam | Published: April 5, 2009
Lorena Anderson, a reporter for The State’s sister paper in Myrtle Beach, wrote a good article Saturday about doughnut holes — those patches of unincorporated land that are surrounded by the city limits. South Carolina’s annexation laws do not allow cities to annex these areas without the property owner’s consent, but the Municipal Association of South [...]
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