Rossmoor is an unincorporated area and census-designated place located in Orange County, California. As of the 2000 census, the CDP had a total population of 10,298. The gated Leisure World retirement community in the city of Seal Beach is to the south of Rossmoor, Los Alamitos is to the east and north, and Long Beach is to the west (on the other side of the San Gabriel River, the 605 freeway and the border with Los Angeles County). Rossmoor Center, the local shopping center, is in the city of Seal Beach.
According to a June 2006 consultant's report to the Rossmoor Planning Committee, the most cost effective solution for Rossmoor would be to be annexed by the city of Seal Beach.
Although it is not part of the city of Los Alamitos, it is served under the Los Alamitos "sphere of influence" and is expected to be annexed to the city by 2007 after the Local Agency Formation Commission reviews the proposal.
Rossmoor is served by the Rossmoor Community Services District and the Rossmoor/Los Alamitos Area Sewer District. The city is also served by their own Community Services District, which serves the community as an independent city hall would, and provides services like landscpe upkeep, city and road maintenance, and performing the general day-to-day upkeep of the community. However, the council lacks any central government, authority to the California State Government, and cannot make decisions about the future of the community, which is all delegated to the County of Orange's Unincorporated Islands Program.
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