What is the history of the incorporation of Carson as a city?
By the late 1950s, some citizens of the community that would become Carson were talking about the possibility of incorporation. Concerned about the lack of power they had over zoning and similar issues that affected them directly, as well as the interest Long Beach and other neighboring communities expressed in annexing Carson territory, they began to work towards incorporation. In June 1960, a committee of residents first petitioned the County of Los Angeles for incorporation of a city to be called “Dominguez.” The plan for incorporation never came to fruition, however, as local industrial leaders came out against it and its proponents failed to generate the support necessary for implementation. During the months and years that followed, persistent civic leaders tried again and again to obtain bureaucratic approval and stir up popular support for their incorporation plans. Repeatedly their hopes were dashed by the continued opposition and dawdling of industries in the community, resis
