Category: government
elected mayor?
January 20, 2009
sense of place
Trees and the CIP
pop up office TSA-Pre
30 days
Five men
Franklin Street, ongoing
Jim Tolbert
Jim’s last official words to me were encouraging, about getting long standing zoning issues rectified. That work now falls to his successor.
Following Mr. Tolbert’s departure I hope we can find an owner’s manual for the City.
The city, sixth-largest in the state with a 2010 population of 93,853, wanted to separate itself from what it saw
as wasteful government spending in surrounding communities. The city benefits greatly, though, from the number of Fortune 500
companies headquartered there, boasting an extremely high per capita income, with the median family household income,
according to a 2008 census estimate, approximated at $129,810, and the average family income $169,815.–Huffington Post
Sandy Springs, Mr.Tolbert’s new town, has a considerably different socio-economic profile and governmental services structure than Charlottesville.