Local News in Brief : Residents Support Strict Growth Limits
The residents of rural Acton, long accustomed to reining in horses, have decided it’s time to lasso a few developers.
By a unanimous show of hands at a town meeting, more than 100 residents voted to lobby the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to enact strict growth and design ordinances in the town 46 miles north of Los Angeles.
And in a ballot vote of 64 to 15, residents decided to create a committee to study incorporating the town of 7,500 residents, which has grown by more than 150% since 1970.
The meeting was called by the Acton Chamber of Commerce, which created a cityhood study committee in May.
But Ruth Benell, executive director of the county’s Local Agency Formation Commission, which oversees incorporations and annexations, has said she doubts 30-square-mile Acton, located between the Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys, has a tax base large enough to support basic services.
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