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CARY, N.C. – The town of Cary is seeking public input on a proposed annexation plan in which 10 neighborhoods zoned in Wake County, but on the fringe of the Cary town limits, are being considered for annexation.

Many residents living within the town of Cary's comprehensive annexation program site don't approve.

"To date they have not convinced a single property owner that annexation is in our best interest," Brookridge Community resident Mark Winston said.

Winston is a member of an organization called Stop Cary.

He lives in a community where the town wants to streamline municipal services like sewage and emergency. To do that, they have to make his neighborhood apart of town limits.

Phase one neighborhoods consist of 10 communities with almost 200 homes.

One of the main reasons that Winston and many other residents fear the annexation is the amount they said that they'll have to pay out if it's approved.

An accountant told Winston he'll have to shell out about $80,000 over the rest of his lifetime.

"We worked so hard to build this house and to put it together and to pay our mortgage and now annexation – maybe we are going to lose everything," Joann Couch, another Brookridge community resident, said.

Couch said paying town taxes would break her budget, but town council member Ervin Portman argued annexation is just apart of sharing the maintenance burden of the community.

"You get the benefits of Cary. Is it fair for you to have all of those benefits and not pay anything towards it?" Portman said.

Though Portman said the proposal may be necessary, a final decision is long off. The six members of the Cary Town Council and the Mayor will meet again on Feb. 26.

Town officials have not indicated whether or not they plan on voting to move forward with the proposal at that meeting.