Danville likes to call itself “the comeback city” and there’s a lot of evidence that’s true. A quarter-century ago, the city went through the economic trauma of seeing the Dan River Mills textile mill shut down. Today, the city is reinventing itself economically, something lots of communities aspire to but often don’t manage to pull off.
This fall, Danville voters will pick five members of a seven-member city council, an unusually high number that’s bumped up by a special election to fill the seat that Madison Whittle left to go to the House of Delegates.
Nine candidates are seeking the four regular seats; two others are running in the special election.
Danville voters who want to see where those candidates stand on the issues can check out the Danville page on our Voter Guide to see how the candidates answered our issues questionnaire; eight of the 11 candidates have replied.
One of the questions we asked the candidates was how they think the city should handle the population and economic growth it’s seeing. Today, let’s take a look at the nature of that population and economic growth.