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ANNEXATION GUIDELINES
The City of Newport Beach's Sphere of Influence shows both City territory and the
unincorporated County territory that 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:
A. Statistical Summary. All relevant data such as land area, population, dwelling
units, street miles, park and open space acreage, and assessed valuation, to
provide a summary of the area's characteristics.
B. Land Use and Planning. Boundaries, topography and natural features, existing
land use, general plans, and zoning to provide a detailed overview of the
existing and planned physical characteristics of the area and to provide a
comparison to areas within the City.
C. Plan of Services. Administration and facilities for public services such as such as
police, fire, sewers, water, and schools, that exist today or are planned for the
future. The Plan should also show the level of services to be provided compared
to levels provided within the City.
D. Traffic and Circulation. Roadways and traffic volumes within the area and their
relation to those within the City.
E. Costs. Initial "start -up" costs, other one -time costs, and continuing annual
expenses to the City by each Department to serve the area.
F. Revenues. One -time and continuing additional revenues by each budget account
to be received by the City as a result of annexation.
G. Demographics. A quantitative description of the population and their attributes
as may be found in census and other similar data.
H. Boundaries. Opportunity to realign boundaries that more closely approximate
logical man -made or natural physical barriers.
I. S afe . Ability to better control fire, police, public health and safety oriented
problems that cross municipal boundaries.
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J. Service. Ability to eliminate awkward and irregular boundaries causing
difficulty and inefficiencies in supplying utilities and City services.
K. Homogeneity. Ability to add residents whom, in terms of social, ethnic, cultural,
economic and political interests and habits already are related to the City.
L. Control. Ability to protect City taxpayers against future costs incurred to correct
prior improper land development.
M. Public Facilities. Ability to provide space for specialized public uses, which are
inappropriate in central locations.
N. Elimination. Ability to eliminate existing or potential land uses and
improvements considered a blighting or deteriorating influence.
O. Preclusion. Probability of the elimination or opportunity for County areas to
incorporate to the detriment of existing cities.
P. Image. Ability to increase City stature by annexation of land and /or •
improvements with exceptional characteristics.
Q. Cost Benefit Anal. 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
Amended - March 9,1998
Amended — March 22,1999
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