Town of Green Level v. Alamance County

McGEE, Judge.

The town of Green Level (Green Level) filed a complaint on 18 June 2004 seeking a declaratory judgment (1) validating an ordinance enacted by the Green Level Town Council extending Green Level’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (the ETJ ordinance); and (2) invalidating Alamance County’s (the County) enactment of an amendment to its Watershed Protection Ordinance (the 2004 ordinance). The ETJ ordinance and the 2004 ordinance purported to assert jurisdiction over the same geographic area (the proposed ETJ area). After a bench trial, the trial court entered judgment on 9 May 2006 in…