City-County Planning Board

Making Sense of Place

A Tale of Three Cities - And What Does It Mean To Us Here?

Courtesy of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, there are three excellent videos that have been produced and made available to us on the challenges of urban growth management and revitalization. These videos have been shown on many public television stations across the country and are being broadcast now on WSTV 13- The Government Channel. They are worth looking at!

These one-hour videos discuss the issues, implications, and responses to the challenges faced by three very different cities: Cleveland, Ohio, Phoenix, Arizona, and Portland, Oregon. All of these cities are larger than our community; they are also in different parts of the country. While the nature of some of the issues they face are unique to themselves, there are many other aspects of those issues that have parallels to most other large or medium size U.S. communities, including our own.

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Forsyth County Complete Count Committee
2010 Census Billboard Contest

See Your work in Lights! Use your artistic skills to design a billboard that gets people to fill out their Census forms.

Did you know that unless you're counted in the Census, many of the taxes you pay won't come back to Winston-Salem and Forsyth County? That includes income tax, sales tax, gas tax and many more! Winston-Salem, Forsyth County and North Carolina will lose more than $1,350 for each person that isn't counted.

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(Censo 2010 en Español informacion)

Our Community's Resilience [pdf/645kb/4p], an article by Paul Norby, FAICP