§ 2.52.030. Petition—Filing—Contents.

A petition for annexation, prepared in compliance with Section 19 of Article 23A of the Annotated Code of Maryland, shall be filed with the City Clerk, together with fifteen copies of the petition and a nonrefundable fee as established by resolution of the City Council. Among any other information which the petitioner may deem relevant or which is required with regard to the area proposed for annexation, the petition shall include:

A.

Descriptive data such as acreage, metes and bounds description of the boundary realignment, population, name and address of each property owner, number and kind of existing uses, roadway mileage, assessments, and existing or proposed public facilities or services;

B.

A plat displaying the present and proposed boundaries, general land use patterns, existing and proposed zoning, present and proposed public facilities and improvements, existing structures, and existing reserved or public areas;

C.

Certification that each owner of real property, both within the area of the proposed annexation and within five hundred feet of the boundaries thereof, has either executed the petition or has been sent by first class mail to the address listed in the assessment records, within sixty days prior to the filing of the petition, a summary of the petition and of the provisions of this chapter;

D.

Description and cost of services presently provided, such as police, fire, ambulance, water, sewerage collection, refuse collection, road maintenance, street lighting, street and curbing construction, stormwater drainage, animal control, housing inspection, public health, recreation, library, etc.;

E.

Description of municipal services which should be upgraded, initiated or extended, together with a recommendation regarding the priority for accomplishing the improvements and a recommendation as to the source of funding for any capital improvements;

F.

Estimation of the cost to the City of having to provide each service;

G.

Estimation of the potential revenue to be realized by the City;

H.

Description of the social and economic characteristics of the proposed area and the surrounding area;

I.

Assessment of any distinguishing environmental characteristics of the proposed area and the surrounding area with an analysis of any effect which annexation might have upon these characteristics;

J.

Description of any unique characteristics of the proposed area and the surrounding area, with an analysis of how these characteristics would be affected by annexation or how any special problems are proposed to be handled.

K.

A description of uses for the land specified in the current and duly adopted Anne Arundel County master plan or if there is no adopted or approved master plan, then the adopted or approved general plan of the County.

L.

The requested City of Annapolis zoning district classification.

M.

A property tax map and a topographic map at a scale of one inch equals two hundred feet.

(Ord. O-16-99 § 1 (part): Ord. O-13-97 § 1 (part); prior code § 2-73)