Complaints from citizens are coming in about living in the Town of Waynesville controlled ETJ and not being able to vote in the upcoming municipal election. Why is the Town of Waynesville City Council able to control what is happening in the ETJ and these people can't voice their opinion about how the town is governed? Why do I pay city taxes and can't vote in municipal elections? Why must I adhere to Town of Waynesville ordinances but can't vote in munucipal elections? Why is the Town of Waynesville City Council trying to silence me? These are the complaints coming in.
We are also hearing complaints about Council member Julia Boyd Freeman getting special treatment and being annexed into the Town of Waynesville just so she can run for Town Council. This needs to be researched and exposed if this is the case. We need new leadership folks. These current council members are taking away citizens rights to vote about how they want their town to develop and Julia Boyd Freeman doesn't opject to anything the other board members bring up. She just sits there and smiles. No wonder they want her to remain on the board. She's their YES girl!
https://haywoodtp.net/pubII/231023Julia ... fPower.pdf
Town Council Candidate Ken Hollifield objected to Freeman's annexation so she could get city sewer and city sewer has never even been connected!
https://haywoodtp.net/pubII/231025Holli ... reeman.pdf
ETJ stands for "Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction" and is an area outside the City's corporate limits in which the City can exercise land use and zoning regulations. Statewide authority for municipal extraterritorial land use regulation was granted by the State Legislature in 1959. The maximum size of a city’s ETJ area is determined by its population. Waynesville's extraterritorial area may extend up to one mile from the city limits since its population is less than 10,000, however it does not have to extend the full mile.
Waynesville map showing ETJ area
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/sites/def ... %20174.pdf
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/sites/def ... %20Map.pdf
Only citizens in the green can vote
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/sites/def ... 022-23.pdf
It looks like that tiny little rectangle at the top of the map, near Dayton Drive, sticking out there by itself might be council member Julia Freeman's annexed property.
What is an ETJ in North Carolina and why do they exist?
https://www.sog.unc.edu/resources/legal ... regulation
The town of Waynesville has a population of ten thousand people now. If the population grows over Ten Thousand the ETJ also grows, so the town can control more land and people around the town without them having a vote in municipal elections. When these over 1000 giant apartments and condos are built in the town of Waynesville our population could grow to 14,000 quickly, which means the town can suck in another mile of surrounding ETJ area to control without their votes, but the residents coming from Asheville, living in the apartments and condos will be able to vote. They will bring their Asheville mindset with them.
Asheville and Buncombe County has fallen because of the radical left city council and county commissioner's agenda of no police, no jails, make all drugs legal and the government to run everything. The books in the Asheville City Schools library would blow your mind at the sexual content they are feeding their children. This must be stopped! End ETJ in Waynesville!
https://www.sog.unc.edu/resources/legal ... regulation
The maximum size of an ETJ is determined by its population. G.S. 160D-202(a) provides that the extraterritorial area may extend up to one mile from the city’s primary corporate limits for cities with populations of less than 10,000. If county approval is secured, a city with a population of 10,000–25,000 may extend its jurisdiction for up to two miles; a city with a population of more than 25,000, up to three miles. In addition, a city may choose to exercise only part of its potential jurisdiction.
Town of Waynesville zoning maps
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/sites/def ... 202021.pdf
Town of Waynesville Planning Documents and Maps
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/departmen ... ments-maps
Town of Waynesville Zoning Ordinances
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/departmen ... ordinances
Town of Waynesville Land Development Standards
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/sites/def ... 202021.pdf
Waynesville's Land Development Standards apply to the ETJ
https://www.waynesvillenc.gov/sites/def ... lity_2.pdf
