3 AAC 110.090 - Need

(a) The territory must exhibit a reasonable need for city government. In this regard, the commission may consider relevant factors, including

(1) existing or reasonably anticipated social or economic conditions, including the extent to which residential and commercial growth of the community has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur beyond the existing boundaries of the city during the 10 years following the effective date of annexation;

(2) existing or reasonably anticipated health, safety, and general welfare conditions;

(3) existing or reasonably anticipated economic development;

(4) adequacy of existing services;

(5) extraterritorial powers available to the city to which the territory is proposed to be annexed and extraterritorial powers of nearby municipalities; and

(6) whether residents or property owners within the territory receive, or may be reasonably expected to receive, directly or indirectly, the benefit of services and facilities provided by the annexing city.

(b) Territory may not be annexed to a city if essential municipal services can be provided more efficiently and more effectively by another existing city or by an organized borough, on an areawide basis or nonareawide basis, or through a borough service area that, in the determination of the commission, was established in accordance with art. X, sec. 5, Constitution of the State of Alaska.

Notes

3 AAC 110.090

Eff. 7/31/92, Register 123; am 5/19/2002, Register 162; am 1/9/2008, Register 185

Authority: Art. X, sec. 1,

AS 29.06.040

AS 44.33.812

Ak Const.

Art. X, sec. 3,

Ak Const.

Art. X, sec. 5,

Ak Const.

Art. X, sec. 7,

Ak Const.

Art. X, sec. 12,

Ak Const.