DOWNLOADABLE PRESENTATIONS, WRITINGS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS 

Desired legislative reforms (current as of 03/2023)

CEQA exemption request (01/2020)

Past VLF legislation that failed "on suspense" (i.e. merits not considered) in Assembly Appropriations Committee

• AB 2491 of 2018
• AB818 of 2019

Presentation to Governor's Office of Planning and Research (08/2019)

ARTICLES

• Carrigg, Dan, "It’s Time to Restore Opportunities for City Incorporation: The Roots of American Democracy" (Western City,  10/01/2017)
• Dunfree, Ryan, "Following Nasty Four-Year Battle, Why Squaw Valley Will Not Become Its Own Town" (Teton Gravity.com, 12/04/2015)
• Gallagher, Chris, "Placer County isn’t addressing Tahoe’s housing crisis. It’s time to incorporate North Lake" (Sacramento Bee, 07/27/2021)
• Hamilton, Brian E., "Chapter 25: One More Step toward Cityhood for East Los Angeles" (42 McGeorge Law Review 2016).
• Ihn, Sara, "The Long Road to Self-Determination: A Critique of Municipal Incorporation through the East Los Angeles Cityhood Movement" (Harvard Latino Law Review, Vol. 13, 07/20/2010) 

• Kusiak, Michael, "A Perspective From a Community Wishing to Become a City" (Western City, 10/01/2017)
• Peacock, Mayumi, "To Be or Not to Be...the Town of Truckee" (Moonshine Ink, 10/15/2021)
• Simmons, Bob, "REVOLT OF THE BALKANS. The Move to Secede from Los Angeles County" (California Journal, April 1976)
• Seaman, Michael, "COVID-19 & Calif.’s Unincorporated Areas" (The Sacto Politico, 10/16/2020)
• Vankin, Jonathan,  "What Makes a California City? Local Self-Government Is the Goal, But It Doesn’t Come Easy" (California Local, 10/10/2022)

BOOKS

• Becoming Citrus Heights. The History of a Unique Incorporation (Miranda Culp, in collaboration with Bill Van Duker, Amatoria Press, May 2022) ISBN 979-8-9862364-0-7
• Santa Clarita. The Formation and Organization of the Largest Newly Incorporated City in the History of Mankind (Carl Boyer, 3rd, 2005) ISBN 0-936124-26-1, Library of Congress Catalog Card#2005907143
• Growth Within Bounds. Planning California Governance for the 21st Century (State of California Commission on Local Governance for the 21st Century, Sacramento, CA, January 2000)

COURT RULINGS

• Superior Court of California, County of Monterey, Carmel Valley Forum vs. Monterey County LAFCO, May 2008. This document has now been removed from the above linked site. However,according to https://www.guidestar.org/profile/01-0696867 @ Program 1, the court not only found for Carmel Valley Forum, it awarded the Forum $160,000 for legal expenses.