Civic Capacity Mailbag

Your Questions Answered about Charter and Statutory Communities

This month in the mail Civic Capacity Mailbag, we pull out a question from a loyal reader in Piqua. Here it is:

Statutory vs charter cities

Can you breakdown in layman's terms and perhaps some real world examples of each, maybe using Piqua and Troy to compare the differences and give pros and cons of each?

For context, every few years, there seems to be …