Sacramento Local
Agency Formation
Commission
(LAFCo)
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What's New! ​

  • ​Airport South Update: On April 2, 2025, a LAFCo hearing is scheduled for the proposed amendments to the Sphere of Influence and proposed Final EIR. The hearing packet will be made available on or about March 25, 2025.   
  • Learn More: ​LAFCo staff has created and presented a Munipical Service Review 101 and a LAFCo 101. We encourage you to learn more about this agency by checking out this link​. 

​Recently Approved Municipal Service Reviews

Meetings​​

The next LAFCo hearing is tentatively scheduled for April 2, 2025​. 

​​​​Regularly scheduled meetings are shown live on Metro Cable channel 14 and are webcast live on Metro Cable TV website. The replay schedule varies, according to prog​ramming.​​​​

Additional Information

  • A new map system​ for looking up service providers under Sacramento LAFCo authority is now available. 
Sphere of Influence Overview

Incorporation v. Annexation: A Comparison

Additional LAFCo Requirements

The current "LAFCo law​" Cortese-Knox-Hertzberg Local Government Reorganization Act of 2000) is available.​


​​​​​What's LAFCo?

Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) is a countywide commission, required in each California county

Our Goals:

  • Promote the orderly formation of governments
  • Preservation of open space and agricultural resources
  • Discourage sprawl
  • Ensure the efficient provision of services​

We Govern:

  • Boundary changes (annexations) of cities and special districts
  • Formation of new agencies
  • Incorporation of new cities and districts
  • Consolidation or reorganization of special districts and or cities
  • Municipal Service Reviews
  • Spheres of Influence Updates

Sacramento LAFCo joins with every LAFCo​​ across the state in accepting greater responsibility for local government service delivery​.​​​​​

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  • Receive announcements​ on completed/updated Municipal Service Reviews, Project Updates and potential LAFCo trainings available to the general public.
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Sacramento Local Agency Formation Commission
commissionclerk@saclafco.org
1112 I Street, Suite 100
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916)874-6458 / FAX (916) 854-9099