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Old 11-03-2015, 07:11 PM
 
Location: California
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Currently California, cities (incorporated municipalities) are not allowed to incorporate across county lines but in other states like Georgia and Texas cities are free to annex and incorporate in every which direction. The city of New York for example is in 5 different counties. But why should this be a problem for Californians? Counties are just subdivisions of the state for providing services to citizens/residents, why limit the natural growth of municipalities to county limits? Seems like an odd thing that California does that few other states do, that is to limit the growth of your cities to the county border. Your thoughts?
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Old 11-03-2015, 08:41 PM
 
Location: Silicon Valley
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It sounds like an accounting nightmare.
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Old 11-03-2015, 08:55 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Currently California, cities (incorporated municipalities) are not allowed to incorporate across county lines but in other states like Georgia and Texas cities are free to annex and incorporate in every which direction. The city of New York for example is in 5 different counties. But why should this be a problem for Californians? Counties are just subdivisions of the state for providing services to citizens/residents, why limit the natural growth of municipalities to county limits? Seems like an odd thing that California does that few other states do, that is to limit the growth of your cities to the county border. Your thoughts?
Absolutely not. CA's biggest cities are too big already. Los Angeles would be better served by being broken up, not expanded. San Diego is also so big it's unwieldy.
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Old 11-03-2015, 11:22 PM
 
Location: downtown
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I say why not.

Lets have the next nyc.
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Old 11-04-2015, 01:39 PM
 
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This rule is the reason why the Bay Area is such a cluster____.

We should have been more like NYC in this regard.
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Old 11-04-2015, 03:32 PM
 
Location: downtown
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We should have been more like NYC in this regard.
yeah the next nyc should happen.
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Old 11-06-2015, 12:13 AM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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This rule is the reason why the Bay Area is such a cluster____.

We should have been more like NYC in this regard.
Why wouldn't you just change the county lines if the county boundaries are preventing growth?
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Old 11-06-2015, 01:18 AM
 
Location: Arvada, CO
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They do that here in Colorado, and I think it's more of a mess than how CA restricts it.
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Old 11-06-2015, 01:59 PM
 
Location: Paradise
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Sure. Should 21st century planning be restricted by lines on a map drawn by gold miners?
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Old 11-06-2015, 03:45 PM
 
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This rule is the reason why the Bay Area is such a cluster____.

We should have been more like NYC in this regard.
I agree. If SF was set up similarly to NY, I'd live in the city limits, which would be pretty cool. I can see the skyline very clearly from my apt window, anyway, so it's not that far (I currently live in downtown San Mateo).

Instead we have crazy amounts of balkanization, and every little suburb/town wants to do their own thing. There's no coordination at the regional level in the Bay Area, and it's one of our biggest failings as a region.

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Why wouldn't you just change the county lines if the county boundaries are preventing growth?
That sounds harder to do than just annexing smaller towns. I can't imagine the entire county of San Mateo would vote in favor of combining with SF county...but I could, theoretically, see Daly City, Brisbane, South SF, and towns around it agreeing to combing with SF (especially Daly City since it's a seamless transition to SF in many areas).

That said, I don't see any of those scenarios happening - just the county level sounds much harder to pull off.
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