Instead, the board instructed the CSD staff to organize an outreach strategy to inquire from local residents what kind of increased services or needs they would like the county government to address.
Incorporating as a city would mean the community would have to finance it's own services, like police, fire, water, wastewater, roads, parks and more. A study would have to be conducted in coordination with San Luis Obispo County officials to determine if enough property and sales tax is generated to cover those expenses as an independent body.
The cost of staff time and studies to evaluate the viability of Los Osos incorporating was estimated at about $200,000.
