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The '''Pensacola city limits''' encompass the area that is governed by the [[City of Pensacola]]. Residents and property owners within the limits may vote in city elections, receive city services, like [[Pensacola Police Department|police]] and [[Pensacola Fire Department|fire]] protection, and pay the additional [[property taxes]] that fund city government. The current limits are bounded ''roughly'' to the north by [[Creighton Road]], to the west by [[Davis Highway]] south to [[Texar Drive]] then southwest to [[Navy Boulevard]], and to the south and easy by [[Pensacola Bay|Pensacola]] and [[Escambia Bay]]s; however, these boundaries are extensively [[Wikipedia:Gerrymandering|gerrymandered]].

The city limits as established by [[Andrew Jackson]] in [[1821]] covered an area of 9.75 square miles. This was increased to 17.2555 square miles in [[1953]].<ref>http://www.cityshowcase.com/pensacola/</ref> Other areas have been annexed since then, most recently in the 1980s to incorporate the area including [[Cordova Mall]] and [[Washington High School]],.<ref>"City eyes annexation of areas." ''Pensacola News Journal'', May 17, 2005.</ref> but there  There is a [[Annexation movement|movement to annex]] more unincorporated urban areas of Pensacola to better represent the actual metropolitan area.In its 2006 "Ballsy Plan" issue, the ''[[Independent News]]'' proposed expanding the city limits north to [[Olive Road]] as far west as [[U.S. 29]], then south along [[W Street]] to [[Fairfield Drive]], which would serve as the western boundary. The publication claimed this expansion would elevate Pensacola to the twelfth-largest city in Florida (from the fortieth), making it more attractive to prospective residents and businesses, and would add millions in property tax revenue to the city's annual budget.<ref>[http://www.inweekly.net/article.asp?artID=2953 "Ballsy Plan III."] ''Independent News'', June 1, 2006.</ref>