West Mobile Annexation Plan

Annexation. A word that's sparked controversy in West Mobile for years is a top topic once again in the Port City. In a news conference Thursday, Mayor Sam Jones announced a new annexation plan for people living between Cody and Schillinger Roads.
"We want to be able to provide our city services to the people in West Mobile," says Jones. "If they vote to annex into Mobile, they'll receive better police and fire protection, better roads and drainage systems and property owners wouldn't have to pay city property taxes for five years."
The new plan calls for individual neighborhoods to vote on whether or not to annex. Four regions within the annexation area would decide as individual communities instead of one, larger geographic area.
"I think it's a great idea," says West Mobile resident O.T. McCants. "We need better roads and better trash pick-up."
If it isn't broke, don't fix it," says West Mobile resident Jim Patterson. "We'd rather stay in the county. Our services right now are just fine."
"We'd add about four-thousand new people to the city of Mobile," says Jones. "Our goal is to get bigger and better. We want to become larger than Birmingham one day and annexation is the way to do it."
For a closer look at the areas that could be annexed by the city, click on "Annexation Maps" under related links.