Ocean Springs aldermen vote to move forward with annexation plans - WXXV News 25

City officials successful Ocean Springs are moving guardant with plans to annex 2 parcels of land.

The City of Ocean Springs is bringing backmost a reoccurring taxable which is plans of perchance annexing the city.

The properties successful question see the westbound broadside of Highway 57 to lucifer Gautier’s bound to the eastbound and southbound of Highway 90.

The annexation would besides bring Ocean Springs High School into the metropolis limits and would adhd astir 1,500 radical to the city.

The metropolis has attempted to annex the region onshore eastbound of the metropolis 3 times with the past effort being successful 2017.

Ocean Springs Mayor Kenny Holloway explains wherefore helium wishes to determination guardant with the annexation. “We’re a small spot behind, I feel, wherever the metropolis should beryllium arsenic acold arsenic maturation of the boundaries. So, we played with the maps and studied them and moved them astir and we’ve travel up with 1 that each the aldermen hold with, and I similar it too. At the gathering past week, we filed the solution to determination forward.”

Holloway continued to accidental that Ocean Springs doesn’t person immoderate boundaries adjacent to the interstate similar different Coast cities and helium thought it was important that they got to the intersection.

But with annexation comes alteration and those changes volition interaction territory 5 residents of Jackson County. District 5 Supervisor Randy Bosarge said, “I’ve had a batch of acrophobic citizens telephone successful some areas that are being considered for annexation, and truthful I consciousness similar I request to respect their wishes and reason the annexation, truthful that’s what I’ll beryllium doing astatine our December 19th meeting.”

Once the petition is filed, a justice volition beryllium assigned and the courts volition determine whether determination is simply a merit to the proposal.