Opinion: Here's the case for La Jolla leaving San Diego to form its own city [Opinion]
This also is because burgeoning cities, such as San Diego, have an increasingly difficult time staying in touch with the periphery. Core services tend almost ineluctably to be concentrated in and around the city center, not the outskirts.
And if one spends any amount of time in Downtown San Diego, one immediatelyIf the city center is struggling to keep up with the strain of services, how can it possibly provide for places that are further afield? It strains credulity to believe that the city can continue to properly provide for all areas, especially in light of its perpetual city retiree pensionIncorporation also will allow La Jolla to contract independently for core services like police, fire, water, wastewater and trash...
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