San Diego Local Agency Formation Commission

LAFCO is responsible for coordinating, directing, and overseeing logical and timely changes to local governmental boundaries, including annexation and detachment of territory, incorporation of cities, formation of special districts, and consolidation, merger, and dissolution of districts. In addition, LAFCO is charged with reviewing ways to reorganize, simplify, and streamline governmental structure. A primary objective of LAFCO is to initiate studies and furnish information that contributes to the logical and reasonable development of public agencies. In 1994, LAFCOs were given the authority to initiate proposals involving district consolidation, dissolution, subsidiary district establishment, merger, and reorganization (combinations of the above jurisdictional changes).