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The City of Industry website says 68,000 people work there, but the population is less than 300, and most of the homes in the city are rentals owned either by one family or by the city itself, so they basically hand-select who lives in the city and therefore who is able to vote

Vernon & City of Industry were incorporated for the explicit purpose of enabling industries to avoid taxes.

Just split it into Los Angeles, Long Beach and Vernon and we're good

imagine all the duplicate administrative overhead needed to run all these 😵‍💫

At the same time, the city of LA is too big (and is represented by far too few people)

Bellevue WA (which should arguably be absorbed into Seattle itself, but whatever) has a few of these stupid little fake cities with 300 residents. Basically an HOA with tax authority. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaux_A...

The deal in TX is typically to make sure the segregationist HOAs remain untouched in exchange for the upzonings.

Second best idea: 100 dollar toll to enter/exit beverly hills from LA

Extreme home rule is a huge part of this problem. (and it's probably the only reason why these cities exist in the first place.) Make Dillon's Rule great again.

shoutout to the City of Industry, a gerrymandered little strip of businesses who don't want to pay taxes for municipal services that any residents would use. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of...

but that's where I wanna be!

Only two hours from the beach! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9253...

HRE ass political map

Why so many unincorporated areas? Annex that shit.

Yeah what the hell. Why is Beverly Hills its own enclave. New rule: No Enclaves.

Do you want Mayor Rob Ford? This is how you get Mayor Rob Ford: six cities amalgamated into the new megacity of Toronto and the suburban flavored non-Old-Toronto parts of the expanded city voted in a guy who hates urbanism and loves cars. Look at the map here: theconversation.com/who-votes-fo...

Atlanta has that beat! Not in terms of number, but in terms of stupidity. Check this shit out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattah...

There are at least two enclave towns in the Bay Area that are completely enveloped by larger cities (Newark and Piedmont). Unnecessary!!

I think we went the wrong way, but at least there is no unincorporated land in MA. Every bit belongs to a municipality. This reform happened like early 2000s iirc?

Psh, St. Louis County has 88 different cities and a much smaller population. 88 doesn't even include St. Louis City!