This also is because burgeoning cities, such as San Diego, have an increasingly difficult time staying in touch with the periphery. There are at least three easily recognizable benefits to incorporation: A self-governed La Jolla would almost immediately improve public safety and cleanliness incorporation would allow La Jolla to contract independently for municipal services and autonomy would lead to a more robust and engaged electorate.Īnecdotal evidence suggests that smaller cities have a much easier time keeping up with street sweeping and police protection. But rather than focus on each step in the process, let’s instead focus on the expected benefits of incorporation. The Association for the City of La Jolla has hired Richard Berkson of Berkson Associates to prepare a fiscal impact report, and will clear a big hurdle if fiscal feasibility can be shown. And perhaps most dauntingly of all, separate public votes must show that both a majority of La Jollans and a majority of all San Diegans (known as the dual-majority requirement) approve of La Jolla’s detachment. Third, LAFCO, a subdivision of the state of California which is responsible for the formation, expansion and consolidation of local government agencies, would have to approve the initiative. Second, a petition calling for incorporation would have to garner at least 25 percent of local registered voters, which, given La Jolla’s population of almost 50,000, would be around 12,500 people. First, a formal proposal would need to be submitted to the San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission, or LAFCO.
So what exactly are the plans for accomplishing what others have in the past failed to do? There are four discrete steps, as recently reported in the La Jolla Light.
These are serious people with fundamentally sound plans for improving La Jolla and San Diego. But this time is different in part because the newest iteration of the group comprises some of La Jolla’s most prominent residents. La Jolla has been here before, with the most recent effort failing in a dramatic denouement in 2018 when Cindy Greatrex, the president of the group behind the independence movement, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $67,000 from La Jolla Recreation Center funds. Commentary Opinion: Should La Jolla secede from San Diego? The pros, cons and details of being its own cityĪ group of people from the neighborhood of La Jolla (population 50,000) is once again exploring the possibility of seceding from San Diego (population 1.4 million) to form its own city.
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