techno-ag said:IIRC, Bryan was ahead in population until a change in Census a while back that started to count students. Take away the rentals in CS and Bryan has more residents. Even so, housing permits are up. Bryan may regain the numbers sooner than that. We shall see.Bryanisbest said:
The population of the two cities will probably equal out about 25 years from now.
techno-ag said:IIRC, Bryan was ahead in population until a change in Census a while back that started to count students. Take away the rentals in CS and Bryan has more residents. Even so, housing permits are up. Bryan may regain the numbers sooner than that. We shall see.Bryanisbest said:
The population of the two cities will probably equal out about 25 years from now.
Maybe. But the details would be too onerous imo with school administration and equitable school rezoning alone. Then you'd have the multiple layers of departmental administration in fire, police, utilities, etc. Finally you'd have to figure out the combined city council with single member districts, presumably. I don't think it'll ever happen.Bryanisbest said:techno-ag said:IIRC, Bryan was ahead in population until a change in Census a while back that started to count students. Take away the rentals in CS and Bryan has more residents. Even so, housing permits are up. Bryan may regain the numbers sooner than that. We shall see.Bryanisbest said:
The population of the two cities will probably equal out about 25 years from now.
Techno, would you support unification of the cities? Not trying to trap you. I always respect your posts on Texags.
techno-ag said:Maybe. But the details would be too onerous imo with school administration and equitable school rezoning alone. Then you'd have the multiple layers of departmental administration in fire, police, utilities, etc. Finally you'd have to figure out the combined city council with single member districts, presumably. I don't think it'll ever happen.Bryanisbest said:techno-ag said:IIRC, Bryan was ahead in population until a change in Census a while back that started to count students. Take away the rentals in CS and Bryan has more residents. Even so, housing permits are up. Bryan may regain the numbers sooner than that. We shall see.Bryanisbest said:
The population of the two cities will probably equal out about 25 years from now.
Techno, would you support unification of the cities? Not trying to trap you. I always respect your posts on Texags.
Maloney is not correct, BoR changed it.Picadillo said:
Thanks to the growth of A&M, Bryan now has campus elements, but is not and was never the home to Texas A&M. Maloney is correct to point this out.
Correct. But we shouldn't merge cities or school districts. I don't understand the desire for larger government entities which will have more power over more people and become even more bureaucratic. Competition is good for consumers, and the cities competing against each other is good for residents and businesses.George Costanza said:
In Texas, school districts are entities completely separate and apart from the cities and counties. Merging the cities would have no more effect on CSISD and BISD than merging the school districts would have on the cities if the hypothetical was reversed.
