New Cities Raise Taxes, Pay Alimony
10 July 2002 - 7:00am
A decade after the passage of the "revenue neutrality" law, the incorporation of new cities appears to be back as a major planning issue in California.
If you want to form a new city in California, be prepared to pay up. After10 years of minimal incorporation activity, the state is seeing communitiescreate new cities more often. But the new cities are having to pay millionsof dollars of "alimony" to counties and are even having to raise taxes tomake themselves viable. California Planning & Development Report PublisherWilliam Fulton analyzes the incorporation trends.
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California Planning and Development Report, July 9, 2002
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