Holmby Hills resident William Fleischman is leading a crusade to move his neighborhood from Los Angeles to Beverly Hills. The reason for the municipal apostasy? Potholes. According to the LA Times , Fleischman approached the Beverly Hills City Council earlier this month with a request “to consider annexing the 40 or so members of the Holmby Hills Homeowners Assn. north of Sunset and east of Beverly Glen Boulevard .” The way Fleischman sees it, the particularly wealthy neighborhood of Holmby Hills isn’t seeing a return on its property tax investments (it was home to several of 2011′s biggest home sales, for instance): “Holmby Hills pays millions of dollars to Los Angeles in property taxes, and we’re getting back thousands of dollars in services.” As noted by LA Observed , property taxes are, of course, paid to the county, which then pays some of that money to cities. Moreover, ever since a state decision to dissolve redevelopment agencies , cities get even less of that property tax money than they used to. In another sound bite masterpiece, Fleischman admits that his neighborhood risks sounding like “spoiled brats” for complaining about municipal services amid the city’s money woes

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Secession and Annexation: Holmby Hills Asks Beverly Hills to Take It In, Pave Its Streets