City / County Comparison Chart

	LA County	City of Santa Clarita
Size	Over 4,000 sq. mi.	About 52 sq. mi.
Population	Over 10 million	About 177,000
Budget	About $19 billion	About $160 million
Employees	90,000-100,000	About 350
Number of elected officials who control my local government	5	5
Number of elected officials I can vote for	1	All 5
Number of residents each elected official represents	About 2 million	All 5 represent all 176,000 residents
Number of elected local officials living in the Santa Clarita Valley	0	All 5
Number of Planning Commissioners having to live in the Santa Clarita Valley	0	All 5
Location of where my elected officials meet	Downtown LA	City Hall
Length of drive to attend a meeting of my elected officials or planning commission	About 100 miles round trip	A few miles round trip
Time of day that my elected local officials meet	9:30 a.m.	6:00 p.m.
Amount of taxes collected in the Santa Clarita Valley that are spent in the Santa Clarita Valley	Less than 100% (more in taxes are paid out than received back in services)	100% of taxes are spent locally
Number of existing units approved and built in the Santa Clarita Valley	About 69,000	About 7,000
Units approved to be built in the SCV	Over 35,000	About 6,000
Units currently pending approval in the SCV	About 15,000	About 2,000
Percentage of the number units built, approved, and pending in the SCV	89%	11%

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