Sylva set to expand planning district

Sylva Town Board members are expected to move forward with plans to make the Allen’s Branch community part of the town’s extra territorial jurisdiction Thursday, Aug. 17. However, several local residents are pushing for the boundary’s lines to be redrawn.
Aldermen are considering creating an extra territorial jurisdiction, or ETJ for short, as a result of a petition dated April 25, 2005. Don and Cathy Arrington, Millard and Charlene Monteith, Scott and Angie Connor and Forrest Bryson called for town leaders to consider placing the community under ETJ “in the absence of any meaningful county zoning.” About 20 local residents are said to support the measure.