LAUREL HILL A smaller property tax bill might be the only sure change realized by residents if in early March they decide their little city should be dissolved and become another unincorporated part of Okaloosa County.
Incorporated in 1905, the 3-square-mile Laurel Hill is the county’s oldest city. But with lingering poor road conditions and other troubles on their mind, more than 50 of its 600 or so residents have signed petitions seeking a referendum on whether the city should be dissolved.
That type of quest has happened before, but without reaching the referendum stage and voting booth in the home of the Laurel Hill School Hoboes and Laurel Hill Hobo Festival. With the current City Council’s approval, a referendum was placed on the March 9 ballot asking voters whether to dissolve Laurel Hill.