Group pushing to incorporate opulent enclave
December 25, 2007
A drive for cityhood is afoot in an opulent community, where average home prices are by far the highest in the county and where the U.S. Census Bureau in 2002 declared per capita income as the highest in the nation, writes Adam Kaye, a staff with the North County Times.
Kaye continues: “Proponents of cityhood, which in government lingo is called "incorporation," say the community could better protect its rural environment if it were self-ruled. They say a city could create its own police force and better maintain and manage traffic in the sprawling estate-filled community. To pay for such services, a new tax would appear on utility bills and fees would be levied against new development”
Kaye does not mention if the county has agreed to pay for a Hoffman Study, likely used more as propaganda to convince residents that cityhood is good for the community. However, the writer points out that: “While no opposition group has formed to challenge the incorporation drive..”, quoting a resident that cityhood proponents are "hyping a big idea that doesn't really have merit, and at the end of the day, we'd end up paying considerably more than we're spending now." Kay also points out that this cityhood movement is not unique: ”This isn't the first time the community has tried to incorporate. A cityhood proposal appeared on the ballot in 1987 and 73 percent of voters rejected it”
For all intents and purposes, the community's association is the governing body, and we understand courts have ruled this to be the case in many instance – some board we have known, have treated the association more like a personal fiefdom, where law and order applies only to those not on the List of Prominent Residents. Kaye notes that “while the association's board conducts regular meetings that look and sound much like those of a city council, the association is not bound by the state's sunshine laws requiring government transparency"
A Laguna Woods Village resident writes in response to Kaye’s article: “maybe someone from over there at leisure world might want to relay some information to those poor homeowners out there in as to the PERILS OF INCORPORATION.. before its too late?
Oops, we thought Kaye was writing about the CZ Master Association, and the cityhood initiative Mr. Robert Varo promised would be at the top of the priority list for the new CZ Master board of directors – the one where the CZ board told residents a Hoffman Report was to be underwritten by the Orange County Board of Supervisors at the tune of $20,000, and the same one the Orange County Boards claims to not know anything about…. Kaye is actually writing about Rancho Santa Fe
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