Hanford to annex 6 county islands, will provide residents with city services

The City of Hanford has started the annexation process for 5 of the six-county islands.

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- In the adjacent respective months, the City of Hanford volition beryllium expanding by annexing oregon adding six antithetic region areas into metropolis limits.

City officials accidental the biggest alteration volition beryllium the services that are being provided to residents.

Those services see discarded and recycling management, arsenic good arsenic occurrence and constabulary calls.

"Faster service, it's much businesslike due to the fact that they are already adjacent to metropolis limits oregon successful metropolis limits, it makes much consciousness for the metropolis to beryllium providing those services," explained Jason Waters, the Community Development Director with the City of Hanford.

The biggest information includes respective neighborhoods connected 10th Avenue adjacent Highway 198.

Other areas see residences on Flint Avenue adjacent 10th and 11th Avenue.

"We are thrilled to bring them in. I deliberation it makes a batch of sense. We cognize that the metropolis is going to grow, truthful we spot this arsenic a indispensable measurement successful the process, truthful we are excited to determination guardant with this," mentions Waters.

The region and the metropolis some hold this alteration is the opening of much structured services to locals presently surviving successful region islands.

"When you speech astir annexing successful this instance, it truly kinda streamlines and creates much ratio for the residents and constituency successful those areas due to the fact that you don't person a clump of antithetic agencies successful and retired of the country serving akin purposes," said Matthew Boyett, Kings County Deputy County Administrative Officer.

The annexation of these region islands is simply a authorities request successful bid for the metropolis to grow its limits. Which is thing Hanford is looking to do.

"So that is benignant of what initiated this process, is the metropolis is readying connected annexing immoderate areas to the south, and LAFCO approached america and indicated, hey, let's instrumentality this accidental to cleanable up those region islands arsenic good and bring them into the city," mentioned Jason.

The City of Hanford has started the annexation process for 5 of the six-county islands.

The sixth land volition beryllium annexed erstwhile it is nary longer considered Prime Agricultural Land.

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