La Jolla Would Like to Leave UC-SD Behind

The folks in La Jolla - or some of them - would like to secede from the City of San Diego. But they have carefully carved out the UC-San Diego campus - which pays no property taxes - and left it to San Diego. From the San Diego Union-Tribune:

A new effort to make La Jolla its own city appears to be more formidable than previous drives for independence and is being spurred by a more complicated mix of motivations. Efforts to make La Jolla its own city separate from San Diego date back to the 1940s and emerge roughly once a decade. But previous tries have lacked funding, stopped short of proposing specific boundaries and typically focused on one or two issues.

Community leaders behind the latest effort have already paid a consultant for a financial analysis they expect to unveil this summer, and this spring, they released detailed maps of the proposed city of La Jolla. This time, they are motivated in part by decaying infrastructure they say San Diego doesn’t have the capacity to fix, neglected amenities like parks and concerns that San Diego’s efforts to spur more dense housing could damage La Jolla’s character...

For the effort to succeed, they must secure approval from a majority of voters in both La Jolla and then the entire city of San Diego...

Full story at https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-05-30/la-jolla-cityhood-why-secede-now-who-might-benefit.

As the story notes, getting approval would require voters in San Diego to approve the transfer, not an easy project. As far as yours truly knows, UC-San Diego has not taken a position on the proposal.