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provide services
socializing community members
managing conflict |
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| Limits of the community government |
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privatization of development
state power
apolitical politics |
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| an ongoing succession of private economy transactions |
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| a measure of local self government |
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| local agency formation commission |
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| studies the possible impacts of the new city |
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| new cities with under 3,500 residents must abide under the state general law |
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more or less self contained settlements controlling their own destinies
often urban |
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| urban villages/ edge cities |
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| conglomerations of shopping malls industrial parks, office campuses, institutions and residential housing |
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predates the progressive movement and tends to have strong mayors and substantial legislative, budget, appointive, and administrative powers
full time city councils with members elected by the district
substantial partisan influence on elections and personnel |
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| typically part-time, modestly paid city councils hire professionally trained city managers or administrators who appoint most department heads and run day to day affairs of the city |
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| fiscalization of land use |
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| favoring building revenue rich commercial projects to be able to collect more tax dollars |
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| intend to improve or revitalize distressed or blighted areas |
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| subdivisions of cities or counties |
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| separate legal entities with their own elected boards that provide and finance their particular services |
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| groups of autonomous counties and cities in a region coming together to deal with issues of common signifigance |
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