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- NATION, Page 46Election NotesBOUNDARIESCutting Loose
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- They did not quite pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred
- honor, but voters in Staten Island, N.Y., and Key Biscayne,
- Fla., have decided to declare their independence. By an 81% vote
- last week, Staten Islanders approved a commission to study the
- feasibility of breaking away from New York City. Staten Island's
- 400,000 residents are irate over the political powerlessness of
- their borough, which, they claim, receives a smaller portion of
- municipal services than the city's four other boroughs and more
- than its fair share of mental institutions, prisons and
- landfills.
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- In Key Biscayne, the affluent residential island of 12,000
- south of Miami, 58% of the voters chose to secede from
- Metropolitan Dade County and incorporate their community as a
- separate city. Reason: anger over Metro Dade's zoning decisions,
- which have led to over development and congestion, according to
- the secessionists. At least four other Miami-region communities
- are plotting their escape from the county bureaucracy.
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