Why has the task of ruling on the breakup of the city of Los Angeles fallen to LAFCO?
LAFCO is an independent commission created by the state Legislature and it has quasi-legislative powers. All local governments, whether they’re cities or special districts, are creatures of state legislatures. The state Constitution grants the state Legislature the ability to create local governments, un-create them, modify them and so on. In 1963, the state Legislature created LAFCOs, one in each county of the state, and granted them the power to deal with boundary issues. What you call a breakup is, by government code, referred to as a special reorganization. A special reorganization is defined as the detachment of a territory from a city and its simultaneous incorporation into its own new city. We have two applications before LAFCO now, one for the San Fernando Valley and one for the Harbor [area], which we are processing. The state Legislature, in creating LAFCOs, also created a whole body of legislative law on how LAFCO should conduct itself and how it proceeds and processes appli
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