Local News in Brief : Teacher to Head Drive for Santa Clarita City
Carl Boyer of Newhall, a San Fernando High School government teacher, Tuesday night was elected chairman of the Santa Clarita City Formation Committee.
The committee, which has replaced the City Feasibility Committee, will spearhead a drive to persuade the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission to place a proposal on the November ballot to form a city from the communities of Castaic, Canyon Country, Newhall, Saugus and Valencia.
The commission scheduled a public hearing on the cityhood proposal at 9 a.m. Feb. 25, said Ruth Benell, the commission’s executive director.
Boyer said the cityhood committee’s biggest challenge will be to convince residents that “cityhood is self government and not some miraculous way of paving over what’s left” of undeveloped land. The committee will hold the first of a series of public forums on cityhood at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13 at 21616 Soledad Canyon Road in Saugus.
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