Andrew Silva, Daily Bulletin Staff Writer 092606
BLOOMINGTON -- The signatures are in and now the waiting begins for those hoping to turn Bloomington into a city.
On Monday, the Bloomington Incorporation Commission, or BIC, submitted 2,106 signatures to the agency that eventually will decide the community's future, said Eric Davenport, one of BIC's leaders.
Cityhood supporters needed to obtain valid signatures from 25 percent of the registered voters in the proposed city.
Roughly 1,800 signatures are needed, though the exact number will be determined by the county Registrar of Voters.
The registrar has 30 days to determine if enough valid signatures have been filed. If the number is short, cityhood proponents will have another 15 days to fill the gap.
If the petition is successful, it sets up a meeting in mid-November at the Local Agency Formation Commission, which rules on annexations and incorporations.
Fontana is looking to annex 289 acres of Bloomington, which is scheduled to come up for a commission vote Nov. 15. Cityhood supporters say the annexation could doom their effort because of the lost tax base.
It remains to be seen if Fontana will hold off on its annexation effort, in order to allow Bloomington's incorporation effort to run its course.
BS Ranch Perspective:
It might be that Fontana is going to race the clock to dash the dreams of the residents of Bloomington, and make it impossible to give them the City Hood that they want! Which is a Shame! I would consider moving to the new city just to get more land and a nicer new home, but they want to make the larger lots a thing of the past, and by Fontana Racing to block the Annexing of Bloomington area, so that they cannot possibly have the tax base to hold a city that would hold a candle to their own. see if they loose to much of the city then the Tax Base becomes impossible to support the newly founded city of Bloomington!
With that they will be at the mercy of the annexing of land from Rialto and Fontana, and the smaller lots and they will loose the charm that Bloomington is!, and well was at one time!! That my friend is to bad! I have and will keep on praying for them, because they re a super area, I just wish I could afford some of the Bloomington land so that I could live there and possibly at one time have and ride horses, but they will annex it all away and it will be small little lots that will not only take away from the charm of Bloomington, but it will ruin the whole concept that they had in mind for the little city!!
BSRanch
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