Backwater Considers Cityhood Again

17 August 2000 - 2:00pm

The first California community to give up cityhood 32 years may consider reincorporation.

Cabazon, the first California community to give up cityhood 32 years may consider reincorporation thanks to a casino and an outlet mall bringing in millions of dollars. Cabazon is located between Los Angeles and Palm Springs. A recent survey found that residents were opposed to becoming a city again.

Source: San Jose Mercury News, August 17, 2000
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No matter how one wanted to organize the ideal city, housing security would be part of it. No community can function effectively if large numbers of its residents are regularly displaced or perpetually at risk of being displaced.