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As far as I'm aware, there's no procedure or help for the orderly shutdown of a locality that is no longer necessary for the greater community of any level of g
by mjevans 9y ago
As far as I'm aware, there's no procedure or help for the orderly shutdown of a locality that is no longer necessary for the greater community of any level of government. I'm not even aware of there being such procedures in place in other countries, let alone the US where this has context.
- FooHentai 9y agoYou mean in terms of governance, or the physical presence itself? For the presence, there are precedents. For example where small communities in e.g. Alaska get government assistance to move and merge into other communities nearby. However those approaches seem to be taken very rarely, and you can imagine the attitudes of those residents who hold out.
- stephengillie 9y agoCities can disincorporate when they run out of funds, or be disincorporated by the state when they are abandoned. In 2012, the State of Kansas officially disincorporated the city of Treece.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treece,_Kansas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treece,_Kansas
- nerfhammer 9y agothis is a thing that exists, it's called "municipal disincorporation".
- megaman22 9y agoIn Maine, where I grew up, it's not uncommon for dying towns to disincorporate and revert to Unorganized Territories. Services formerly provided by the town revert to either the county government or the state departments. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4697054 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=469705...
- maxerickson 9y agoConnecticut disbanded counties, either hoisting services up to the state or pushing them down to "towns".