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Very generally speaking I think local control of city/town policies is a net negative. Bay Area suburbs have fought tooth and nail for decades to prevent housing construction, and only the state stepping in to mandate that they allow a certain number of housing units is going to start making a dent in the housing crisis. Suburbs of many cities have voted down public transit to keep undesirable types of people out. Etc.
Not incorporating prevents some of this from happening.
Very generally speaking I think local control of city/town policies is a net negative. Bay Area suburbs have fought tooth and nail for decades to prevent housing construction, and only the state stepping in to mandate that they allow a certain number of housing units is going to start making a dent in the housing crisis. Suburbs of many cities have voted down public transit to keep undesirable types of people out. Etc.
Not incorporating prevents some of this from happening.
I, for one, am getting sick of these Govt vs. Govt battles. Another example is a city deciding to outlaw plastic bags. Only to have the State passing a law saying they can't do that.
One of the tasks of higher hierarchy government is to protect citizens from oppression by lower level government exercising “local control”. The Texas state legislature and attorney general routinely have to deal with city of Austin’s never-ending attack on citizens and businesses. The “bag ban” is one such example. It was and still is a reason to avoid Austin when it was trying to enforce its unlawful ban and even now as to stores continuing to follow it after the courts declared it unlawful.
Is that all it took? It doesn't have to be approved by the state legislature?
Depends on the State. In IL, it just requires majority vote of residents. Which is why that
State has so many paper Villages.
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