The following procedures shall apply to all requests for voluntary annexation.
(A) A landowner desiring to have his or her land annexed into the corporate limits of the city shall make a written request for such annexation to the Director of Planning and Zoning.
(B) The written request shall contain a metes and bounds description of the land proposed for voluntary annexation and shall be accompanied by:
(1) A survey plat of the land certified by a land surveyor licensed in the Commonwealth of Kentucky;
(2) A list, prepared by the landowner in accordance with the requirements and specifications of applicable provisions of the Kentucky Revised Statutes, of the names and addresses of all owners of all properties within and/or adjacent to the land proposed for annexation;
(3) A list of the names and addresses of those property owners and/or registered voters who reside within the land proposed for annexation; and
(4) Any other pertinent information as may be requested by the Director of Planning and Zoning.
(C) The land must be urban in character and without unreasonable delay suitable for urban development by reason of population density, commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental, or subdivision use.
(D) The land must not include part of another incorporated city.
(E) The land, as of the time when any final annexation ordinance is presented to the City of Richmond Board of Commissioners for first reading, must be within the service territory of Richmond Water, Gas and Sewerage Works for both water and sewer. It shall be the sole responsibility of the landowner to take such steps, including the payment of any and all fees, charges and expenses, as may be required to release the land from the service territory of any other jurisdiction and to transfer the land to the service territory of Richmond Water, Gas and Sewerage Works.
(Ord. 07-05, passed 3-27-07)