City of Montgomery Stakes Claim to Chantilly Parkway

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The battle over the businesses on the Chantilly Parkway and their tax revenue continued yesterday with action from the Montgomery City Council.

Council members voted 7-0 Tuesday to annex a tract of land owned by Trum LLC into Montgomery at Tuesday’s City Council meeting. Council members Tim Head, District 2, and Willie Cook, District 6, were absent from the meeting.

It engulfed land surrounding the home improvement superstore into the city of Montgomery after weeks of political posturing that countered a previous move by Pike Road.

The Pike Road Town Council voted 5-0 to annex Ryan Road and the nearby Home Depot store Aug. 21. Alabama law requires that annexed property must lie next to the municipality it joins but the annexation moves by the Montgomery City Council cast doubt on the Ryan Road annexation because it is no longer contiguous to Pike Road.

All the businesses along Chantilly Parkway eventually will pay business fees to the city of Montgomery, Council President Charles Jinright said. “It’s just a possible income to the city if it’s in the city limits.”

That will be news to Mayor Gordon Stone of Pike Road who continues to state firmly that the Home Depot is in Pike Road. We’re just getting to the good stuff now.

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