I think they have already usurped that with the latest LAFCO (Local Area Formation Commission... for the uninitiated) legislation, by and large. Local control in local hands is a concept that is under attack, not only by Liberal centralized government lovers, but by far too many claiming to be Conservatives!!!
Of course, what is required of one claiming to be a "Conservative?" It's about the same requirement as those claiming to be an "EnvironMentalist," right? These labels are self-assigned when people wake up of a morning and hear someone say something they agree with, then ask what that person's political leanings are, then adopt their label for their own, until they hear something else they agree with even more... Then they change again!!!
Your replies are looked forward to and are always so very illuminating!!! You should win an award for being among the most cogent of FR's contributors. Siskayou County is fortunate to have you on their board as one of the five highest elected officials a rural population can elect to office.
Trying to divert land use authority from you and your four colleagues is a crime, IMO, because it's trying to divert that power away from "the people" and their elected representative!!!
Kindly rethink this statement. Why should "the people" decide how I live? What is their "stake" in what I do with my land?
When a County has no respect for property rights, local control just as easily turns into a local nightmare. You decry HOAs yet they are as local as it gets. Indeed, it is because they are so close that their powers of enforcement can be so oppressive.