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Originally Posted by wburg
Keep in mind that there is a lot of political will by the very wealthy folks in Arden-Arcade to NOT incorporate--and a lot of the regional money is controlled by folks who are downright fearful of government, and convinced that private solutions are the best ones, so they deliberately work against incorporation or annexation.
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I actually understand and approve of that sentiment.
However, the problem with this, as the people of Citrus Heights, Elk Grove and Rancho Cordova figured out, and the people of El Dorado Hills are starting to figure out, is that with a growth situation, in the absence of a single municipal government, you have to create a bunch of other government entities, for example:
--a water district because the rural wells are no longer enough,
--a sewer district because the rural septic tanks are no longer enough,
--a fire district because the volunteer or small county fire department is no longer enough,
--a parks and recreation district to administer and maintain the parks that the (sub)urban developer put in,
--county sheriffs and local schools that have to expand dramatically,
--and so on, and so on, and so on....
Before you know it, you have a multi-headed Byzantine hydra of governments, when it would have been far simpler for the wealthy folks, *and* John and Jane Q. Public, to take their issues to one municipal place, or one City Hall.