San Marino : Petitions Remain Separate

Mayor Suzanne Crowell said last week that the city cannot consolidate applications of two groups seeking annexation to the city.

Bruce Cohen, a spokesman for one of the groups, the San Pasqual Area Residents Committee, had asked the City Council to consider the area as a whole, even though petitions for the two groups were drawn separately.

Crowell told Cohen last week that the consolidation is impossible because the annexation process is already under way.

Cohen said it would divide the neighborhood if one group only were to be annexed and its children allowed to attend San Marino schools.

Both neighborhoods seeking annexation are on county land bordering San Marino, just south of San Pasqual Street.