Arnold v. City of Asheville

STROUD, Judge.

This is an appeal challenging the adoption of an annexation ordinance. Petitioners, landowners in the area to be annexed, instituted this action against respondent, the City of Asheville, to review respondent’s adoption of an ordinance that would annex several acres of petitioners’ property into the City of Asheville. The questions before this Court are: 1) whether the trial court erred in determining that the City of Asheville substantially complied with N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-48; 2) whether the trial court erred in determining that the City of Asheville was not required to…