{"id":8977,"date":"2023-11-02T19:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2023-11-02T19:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T23:12:08","slug":"meadows-annexation-into-decatur-is-finalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/02\/meadows-annexation-into-decatur-is-finalized\/","title":{"rendered":"Meadows annexation into Decatur is finalized"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A fourth section of the Meadows of Cross Creek has become a part of the city of Decatur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>City council gave final approval to the annexation at its recent meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The area annexed covers 24.4 acres of land at the northwest end of the subdivision, stretching to near the Barrington Woods housing addition (see photo).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s great to have that area into the city now,\u201d Mayor Dan Rickord noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/arnoldlumber425\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-1024x121.jpg?resize=640%2C76\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C121&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C35&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C91&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C182&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C242&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Ag-Page-Ad-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>At its previous meeting, council had approved the annexation on two of a required three readings, following a public hearing in which no objections to the annexation were aired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city has now annexed nearly 49 acres of land this year, having earlier taken in 24.219 acres of the Lake Shores subdivision on the east side of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both annexations were requested by the land owners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A fourth section of the Meadows of Cross Creek has become a part of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/5CDAC496E62B47FCB4EECB43B889B386.jpg?fit=851%2C294&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}