Calabasas Cityhood Supporters Meet to Keep Effort Alive

Six weeks after a major setback, a committee that has been on a 3-year quest to make Calabasas a city met Wednesday to keep the effort going.

Robert Hill, president of the Calabasas Cityhood Committee, said the meeting was the group’s first since the Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission voted against Calabasas cityhood in February. LAFCO turned down incorporation of the 10-square-mile area after being told that the proposed city would be $450,000 in debt after its first year of operation.

Hill said his group will not begin a new push to get a cityhood measure on the ballot until new income and expense estimates are received in July.

But, he said, “we’re trying to keep the flame burning.”