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John Kennedy (johnk@opel.secondsource.com) wrote:
: In article <302798$aig@access2.digex.net> kfl@access.digex.net (Keith F. Lynch) writes:
: >In article <30157g$hpg@panix2.panix.com>,
: >Peter Kronenberg <pak@panix.com> wrote:

: You are right.  In Virginia, no city is in any county it's either/or.
: If you are a city, you may be surrounded by a county, but you are not
: in its jurisdiction.

: Virginia may be the only state in the union where cities have this 
: distinction.

This has some interesting historical twists.  30 years ago, counties in
Virginia had few protections against neighboring cities annexing portions
of them (usually the portions which had a good tax  base).  The cities of
Virginia Beach and Chesapeake created themselves out of towns and counties
neighboring Norfolk and Portsmouth, as the only defense against further
annexation.  These two independent cities include farmland, as does Suffolk.  
If they hadn't formed, Norfolk and Portsmouth would be larger in area now, 
and it would probably be those cities trying to build a pipeline to Lake 
Gaston, NC for water now :-)
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