May
15
Council moves from “neutral” to “favorable” on Rossmoor
Filed Under 2009 Issues, City Council Meetings, Rossmoor | 10 Comments
Moving towards annexation?
(Los Alamitos, 5/15/09, by Dave Emerson) Earlier this week in a special meeting called by Mayor Troy Edgar, the Los Alamitos City Council voter 4 – 1 to move from a position of “neutrality” to a “favorable” view of having Rossmoor in Los Alamitos’ “Sphere of Influence” (SOI).
The SOI is a designation made by the County’s Local Agency Formation Comission, who has been given the task of getting unincorporated communities like Rossmoor either incorporated or annexed into neighboring communities. The SOI is generally regarded as potentially a first step in the process of annexation.
A sudden Special Meeting with a small audience
Mayor Edgar said he called the meeting just days earlier when the “weekly,” an update mailed to all City Council Members, indicated that the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission had received no feedback from Los Alamitos on their reconsideraton of the matter scheduled for Wednesday morning’s LAFCO meeting.
With the meeting called on short order, the agenda was not posted here until an alert citizen tipped me off Read more
