DOWNLOADABLE PRESENTATIONS, WRITINGS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS 

Desired legislative reforms

• Our current 1-pager

• Our slightly more detailed summary

CEQA exemption request (01/2020)

Past VLF legislation that failed "on suspense" (i.e. merits not considered) in Assembly Appropriations Committee

• AB 2491 of 2018
• AB818 of 2019

Presentation to Governor's Office of Planning and Research (08/2019)

ARTICLES

• Carrigg, Dan, "It’s Time to Restore Opportunities for City Incorporation: The Roots of American Democracy" (Western City,  10/01/2017)
• Dunfree, Ryan, "Following Nasty Four-Year Battle, Why Squaw Valley Will Not Become Its Own Town" (Teton Gravity.com, 12/04/2015)
• Gallagher, Chris, "Placer County isn’t addressing Tahoe’s housing crisis. It’s time to incorporate North Lake" (Sacramento Bee, 07/27/2021)
• Hamilton, Brian E., "Chapter 25: One More Step toward Cityhood for East Los Angeles" (42 McGeorge Law Review 2016).
• Ihn, Sara, "The Long Road to Self-Determination: A Critique of Municipal Incorporation through the East Los Angeles Cityhood Movement" (Harvard Latino Law Review, Vol. 13, 07/20/2010) 

• Kusiak, Michael, "A Perspective From a Community Wishing to Become a City" (Western City, 10/01/2017)
• Peacock, Mayumi, "To Be or Not to Be...the Town of Truckee" (Moonshine Ink, 10/15/2021)
• Simmons, Bob, "REVOLT OF THE BALKANS. The Move to Secede from Los Angeles County" (California Journal, April 1976)
• Seaman, Michael, "COVID-19 & Calif.’s Unincorporated Areas" (The Sacto Politico, 10/16/2020)
• Vankin, Jonathan,  "What Makes a California City? Local Self-Government Is the Goal, But It Doesn’t Come Easy" (California Local, 10/10/2022)

BOOKS

• Becoming Citrus Heights. The History of a Unique Incorporation (Miranda Culp, in collaboration with Bill Van Duker, Amatoria Press, May 2022) ISBN 979-8-9862364-0-7
• Santa Clarita. The Formation and Organization of the Largest Newly Incorporated City in the History of Mankind (Carl Boyer, 3rd, 2005) ISBN 0-936124-26-1, Library of Congress Catalog Card#2005907143
• Growth Within Bounds. Planning California Governance for the 21st Century (State of California Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century, Sacramento, CA, January 2000)

COURT RULINGS

• Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, Carmel Valley Forum vs. Monterey County LAFCO, May 2008 said that Monterey County abused its discretion by considering the proposed City of Carmel Valley as a "project" subject to CEQA. The court document has now been removed from CalLAFCO's website. However, according to https://www.guidestar.org/profile/01-0696867 @ Program 1, the court not only found for Carmel Valley Forum, it awarded the Forum $160,000 for legal expenses.