• Municipal annexation is a process by which a municipality expands its boundaries into adjacent areas not already incorporated into the municipality. A municipality will annex for many reasons, such as to protect or to enhance the municipal tax base, to increase size and population, to ensure unified planning and zoning, to distribute the cost of services more equitably, and/or to ensure orderly future growth in accordance with Town standards.
• In 1998, the Tennessee General Assembly passed Public Chapter 1101 (PC 1101 or the Growth Policy Act). PC 1101 provided that counties and their associated municipalities were to develop countywide growth plans. These plans established Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) for municipalities. Collierville calls the unincorporated land within its UGB the “Collierville Reserve Area”. Properties within the Collierville Reserve Area are eligible for annexation.
•  Click here for a map summarizing Collierville’s annexation history.

• Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA) 6-51-104(c) allows cities to annex property by resolution (adopted by the BMA in one reading after a PC recommendation) if the property owners consent to the annexation. Otherwise, a referendum would be required.
• Contact the Planning Division at 901-457-2360 or planning@colliervilletn.gov to request annexation. A fee will apply. 

• State law requires all annexations to include a Plan of Services (POS). The POS outlines those services and/or amenities that will be made available to the land being annexed and the timeframe within which services and/or amenities will be provided.
• The nine major benefits of being annexed into Collierville include the following basic services listed in the POS:
  • Municipal Schools;
  • Police Coverage;
  • Fire and Emergency Response;
  • Trash Collection and Curbside Recycling;
  • Library Services;
  • Animal Services;
  • Street Maintenance;
  • Water and Sewer; and
  • Management of stormwater drainage system/drainage ditches.

Other services, such as street lighting, would be provided over time as it becomes cost effective. Building and Code inspection services will be provided by the Town on the effective date of annexation.

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• 4,330+/- acres of Collierville's Southern Reserve Area (2012)
• 158.46 acres for Collierville High School (2016)
• 20.267 acres in the Shelby Drive Widening Area (2017)
• 105.46 acres for Quinn road Residents (2019)
• 32.73 acres for Cartwright Farms/Sycamore Road Property (2020)
• 208.8 acres for Cartwright Nursery Property on East Shelby Drive (2022)

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