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ANNEXATION GUIDELINES
The City of Newport Beach has certain Spheres of Influence wherein
unincorporated County territory may be considered for annexation to the City.
In evaluating a proposed annexation, the City Council shall review several items
including, but not limited to, the following.
1. Statistical Summary All relevant data such as land area, population,
units, street miles,assessed valuation, etc., to
provide a capsule view of the area.
2. Land Use and Planning Boundaries, topography and natural features,
land use, general plans, and zoning to provide
a detailed overview of the existing and
planned physical characteristics of the area
to provide a comparison to areas within the
City.
3. Plan of Services Administration and facilities for public
police, fire, sewers, water, schools, etc., both
existing and planned. Also, level of services
to be provided compared to levels provided
within the City.
4. Traffic and Circulation Roadways and traffic volumes within the area
and their relation to those within the City.
5. Costs Initial "start -up" costs, other one -time costs,
and continuing annual expenses to the City by
each Department to serve the area.
6. Revenues One -time and continuing additional revenues
by each budget account to be received by the
City as a result of annexation.
7. Demographics A quantitative description of the population
and their attributes as may be found in census
and other similar data.
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Boundaries Opportunity to realign boundaries that more
closely approximate logical man -made or
natural physical barriers.
Safety Ability to better control fire, police, public
health and safety oriented problems which
respect no municipal boundaries.
Service Ability to eliminate awkward and irregular
boundaries causing difficulty and ineconomies
in supplying utilities and City services.
Homogeneity Ability to add residents who, in terms of
ethnic, cultural, economic and political
interests and habits already are related to the
City.
Control Ability to protect City taxpayers against future
costs incurred to correct prior improper land
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Public Facilities Ability to provide space for specialized public
uses which are inappropriate in central
locations.
Elimination Ability to eliminate existing or potential land
uses and improvements considered a blighting
or deteriorating influence.
Preclusion Probability of the elimination or opportunity
for County areas to incorporate to the
detriment of existing cities.
Image Ability to increase City stature by annexation
of land and /or improvements with exceptional
characteristics.
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17. Cost Benefit Analysis Ability on the basis of cost benefit analysis to
produce excess revenue over cost of
government services. Examples of revenues to
be considered and evaluated are property
taxes, sales taxes, licenses, permits, service
charges, and other similar and typical taxes
and fees. These are to be considered as
benefits" in the cost benefit analysis. An
example of services which reflect cost to
governmental agencies are: Street
maintenance, trash pickup, libraries, parks,
fire and police protection, schools, flood
control facilities, similar governmental
services, and attendant amortized capital
outlay costs.
Adopted - February 27,1967
Amended - February 14,1972
Amended - October 26,1987
Amended - January 24,1994
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