This makes it difficult to fully address such problems as street flooding or garbage disposal. Fayetteville residents could not indefinitely continue to pay for the services and amenities of a city whose day population is many thousands higher than that of its tax-paying population providing those services. As for money grab, the city benefits, but only later. Expanding services costs. So does adding parks and recreation projects, and inspectors to enforce zoning, signs, landscaping, and regulations on animals and abandoned cars.
Annexation is celebrated by some, scorned by others.
But this urban area will be better for it, and will look better for it.