If the ballot measure for incorporation fails, won’t Renton take us over right away?
That was what the incorporation proponents said prior to the last Fairwood Incorporation vote in 2006. Three years later, Renton has not taken us over. Just as there is a required procedure that has to be followed for Fairwood to incorporate, there is also a required procedure to be followed for Renton to annex Fairwood. The Renton City Council would call an election and the majority of the Fairwood voters would have to approve annexation. There is an annexation procedure that just requires an “interlocal agreement” between a city and the county that has “been on the books” for a long time, but according to Lenora Blauman of the King County Boundary Review Board, it has never been used. All cities have used the election method to annex large areas.
