Lisbon's effort to incorporate is denied again
Lisbon - A citizen group's effort to incorporate the Town of Lisbon as a village has been denied by the state, but the group said Monday it likely would appeal the decision.
Lisbon-Inc.org filed a petition in December seeking to incorporate Lisbon to protect its borders from neighboring municipalities that could annex town land. It also wanted to preserve Lisbon's rural character.
But the state Incorporation Review Board, in a decision released publicly Monday, dismissed the petition because the proposed village did not meet all of the standards necessary for incorporation.
Chief among the problems is that the proposed village is not reasonably homogeneous and compact, the board says in its findings.
The proposed village is "fragmented into four distinct areas by existing natural, physical and political boundaries," the board stated.
Lisbon-Inc.org, which has a website under the same name, raised and paid the $25,000 fee required by the state to review the request.
It was the second time the group filed a petition for incorporation. In March 2010, a judge dismissed a petition because it did not have all of the information required by state law.
Robert Williams, a former town supervisor and one of the organizers of the incorporation effort, said the group might appeal the Incorporation Review Board's decision.
"We are going to take a few days to figure out where we will go next. I suspect we will challenge this determination in some form," he said.
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