The City of Gretna has proposed an aggressive annexation package to increase the amount of land and people within the city limits.
The proposed annexation will add about 2,800 people to the city and nearly double Gretna's square mileage. It includes neighborhoods northwest and south of Gretna, Vala's Pumpkin Patch and Sapp Brothers along the I-80 corridor.
The annexation package includes some homes currently in the Platteview-Springfield school district. If it passes, those homes would then be inside the Gretna city limits.
But a law passed 10 years ago creating learning communities, which cannot be changed unless both boards of education agree.
Springfield-Platteview superintendent Brett Richards said that probably won't happen.
"We don't have any plans on giving up any boundaries to the Gretna Public Schools," Richards said. "Nor have they expressed any interest in gaining any boundaries for their school district."
