Local News in Brief : Cityhood Signatures In
Proponents of incorporation for Diamond Bar cleared the first hurdle Wednesday when the county Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) determined that enough petition signatures had been submitted to initiate incorporation proceedings.
On March 17, LAFCO announced that the Incorporation ’88 Committee had fallen 56 signatures shy of its goal of 5,028--25% of the registered voters--because 178 otherwise valid signatures were collected by two petition circulators who were not registered to vote in Los Angeles County.
The committee last week submitted 179 additional signatures, of which 147 were valid, said LAFCO administrative assistant Michi Takahashi.
LAFCO at first ruled that drive leaders actually needed 194 additional signatures because the number of registered voters in Diamond Bar had increased by 777 since the petitions were first submitted--meaning the effort would again fall short, Takahashi said. But a LAFCO attorney reconsidered the commission’s longstanding interpretation of the law and ruled that Diamond Bar cityhood proponents needed only to surpass their original signature goal.
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