L.A.-O.C. boundary put under scrutiny

Should the Los Angeles-Orange County boundary line be moved?

That's an issue that will be discussed on numerous levels in the near future, after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors this week called for a study to determine it the county line should be adjusted near the Coyote Creek flood control channel.

The areas to be studied, according to Supervisor Don Knabe, include small pockets of the cities of La Mirada, Hawaiian Gardens, Cerritos, Lakewood, Long Beach and an unincorporated part of Los Angeles County east of Coyote Creek. The proposed changes also would affect the Orange County cities of Buena Park, Fullerton, Cypress, La Palma, Los Alamitos and Seal Beach.

Knabe said he received a request from Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach to look at various issues next to the common boundary.

"I want to make it perfectly clear that this question of whether the boundary should be shifted has not even been formally discussed," he added. "Neither county has taken definitive action or made any suggestion of a boundary change other than to evaluate the issue, as requested originally by Supervisor Moorlach."

As part of the review, county service agencies -- including fire, sheriff's deputies, school districts -- will provide input, along with the border communities.

"The bottom line is that nothing has happened on this issue," Knabe said. "There has been no public discussion and absolutely no decisions on changing the boundary."