On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:25:42 +0100, "Chris"
wrote:

What does it take to become a city in the US?

In New Hampshire, a town could apply for a city charter when its
poulation reached 25,000, and there were a couple or three cities
whose population was less, because they'd graduated in an earlier and
less restrictive time.

Dunno if that rule still pertains. Towns are now able to adopt a
council form of government, so there is less pressure for a large town
to become a city. (New Hampshire was once a bastion of Town Meeting
government, each citizen able to trek to the town hall or school
auditorium on the second Tuesday of March and state his opinion on the
great issues of the day. Tragically, the Good People are increasingly
ruling out that wonderful system.)


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