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the City has expanded in fact, if not in name. It is to the City's advantage to have a comprehensive annexation policy and to pursue that policy through a consistent program. The need to annex adjacent areas has been established in the previous section, and the resulting advantages are clear. Implementation of an active annexation policy and plan will enable the City to: • Incorporate the urbanized fringe areas with its similarity of land use, intensity and service delivery requirements, providing the City greater opportunity to direct and manage developments that are conducive to the City's goals of managing its immediate environment; • make available the City's Barrett Law procedure as a possible additional means to finance needed or desired infrastructure improvements and to provide managed growth; • facilitate planning for future growth by providing developable sites within the City, thereby establishing the means to compete on an equal basis with jurisdictions on the local, regional and national level; • eliminate irregular, confusing and arbitrary City boundaries, • be in a position to safeguard the health of surrounding residents in the face of increasing concerns on groundwater contamination; • more efficiently direct and influence development along the Indiana Toll Road and the U.S. 20/3I Bypass corridors; • more effectively direct and control development along the major transportation arteries leading into the City, such as S.R. 23, U.S. 33, S.R. 2, U.S. 31 and U.S. 20; • increase revenues by expanding its property tax base; • increase its population, thereby in part providing for greater funding allocations from federal grants and state revenue sources; • more fairly distribute the tax burden among all residents for the maintenance of regional facilities enjoyed by all; • remain a major center for local and regional economic development by following natural growth patterns in the fringe areas; and, 9