Ridgefield Properties, L.L.C. v. City of Asheville

*377WYNN, Judge.

This appeal arises from a determination that the City of Asheville (“Asheville”) substantially complied with the provisions of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 160A-48 (2002) in its annexation of the Ridgefield Area. On appeal, individual and corporate residents of the proposed annexed area (“the Ridgefield Parties”) challenge the involuntary annexation of their properties by assigning error to the trial court’s conclusions of law that: (1) tracts of land, which are under construction, can be classified as commercial property to meet the statutory requirement that at least sixty percent of the…