La Jolla cityhood effort reaches milestone with more signatures
Apr 01, 2025
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- On Tuesday, the group pushing for La Jolla to become its own city submitted to the San Diego County Registrar of Voters office a collection of more than a thousand signatures in support of its efforts, just in time for the April 1 deadline.
"We actually turned in almost
1,500 additional signatures, and we only needed 1,027," said Ed Witt with the Association for the City of La Jolla. "So we're feeling very confident that we will be good to go to the next phase."
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As of Tuesday, the group has submitted more than 8,000 signatures, putting them one step forward. The next step, Kane said, is a financial analysis.
"It's the first time that we've achieved step two, because this is really just a step of the whole process, is validating the signatures," said Diane Kane, the vice president of the association.
The grassroots movement to split La Jolla from the city of San Diego has been in the works for several years, with informal talks of interest in seceding beginning in the 1950s.
"From my perspective, by carving La Jolla off from the city, they are getting rid of a huge financial deficit in terms of maintenance that is unfunded and in terms of capital improvement projects that will never get built," Kane stated.
Last year, the association finally began gathering signatures.
However, the Local Agency Formation Commission, which is behind municipal boundaries set within the county, said last month the group fell short of the 6,750 threshold to get the initiative out to voters.
It gave the Association for the City of La Jolla until April 1 to collect an additional 1,027 resident signatures for them to reconsider their proposal.
Back in December, the association said it had submitted more than 7,000 signatures from supporters. However, the commission said only 5,723 of the signatures submitted were validated, setting back the group's efforts.
FOX 5/KUSI's Dan Plante contributed to this report. Watch his report above. ...read more read less
