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Guide To The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act Of 2000, Assembly Committee On Local Government Sep 2014

Guide To The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act Of 2000, Assembly Committee On Local Government

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The Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000 establishes procedures for local government changes of organization, including city incorporations, annexations to a city or special district, and city and special district consolidations. Local agency formation commissions (LAFCOs) have numerous powers under the Act, but those of primary concern are the power to act on local agency boundary changes and to adopt spheres of influence for local agencies. Among the purposes of LAFCOs are the discouragement of urban sprawl and the encouragement of the orderly formation and development official agencies. Staff to the Assembly Local Government Committee regularly updates the Guide …