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That is the name that Penn National is calling Columbus officials following the latest volley over annexation. Mayor Coleman asked City Council to remove the casino site from a 2003 city sewer contract with Franklin County. City Council approved unanimously. Franklin County commissioners then followed suit. In exchange for the county removing sewer service from the casino site, Columbus extended water rights to neighborhoods that had not previously annexed themselves to the city. This represented a reversal of a decades-long policy of annexation first. However, this agreement does not mean water will be free flowing in these neighborhoods anytime soon. The agreement merely allows the county to extend water. Now they need to come up with the money and time to do so.

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