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STANDARDS
FOR CITY INCORPORATION
Factors
Favorable to Approval:
- Need for organized
municipal or urban-type services.
- A relatively dense
population in a well-defined reasonably compact area.
- Adequate property
tax revenue and a sufficiently high base for sales tax, highway users
tax, motor vehicle in lieu tax, and similar State-collected and disbursed
funds, in relation to anticipated costs of required services as to make
incorporation financially feasible.
- The likelihood
of continued substantial growth within the proposed area and adjacent
areas during the next ten years.
- Remoteness from
other highly populated areas and particularly from an existing city
to which the area proposed for incorporation could be annexed.
- Alternate means
of furnishing required services are infeasible or undesirable.
- No adverse effect
upon long-range provision for adequate local governmental services by
other agencies to a larger region of which the area proposed for incorporation
is an integral part.
- Is consistent
with adopted spheres of influence and the county adopted general plan.
Factors
Unfavorable to Approval:
- Relatively low
population density.
- No or slight need
for municipal urban-type services.
- Population not
in a reasonably compact or defined community.
- Low property tax
revenue, low retail sales of gasoline and other retail sales in relation
to anticipated costs of services as to make incorporation financially
infeasible.
- Area proposed for
incorporation is in close proximity to an existing city to which it
could be annexed.
- Incorporation
is premature in view of lack of anticipated substantial growth within
the next ten years.
- Property boundaries
do not include all urbanized areas or are otherwise improperly drawn.
- Incorporation would
have an adverse effect upon the long-range provision of local governmental
services to a larger region of which the area proposed for incorporation
forms an integral part.
- The proposal is
not consistent with adopted spheres of influence and adopted general
plans.
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