{"id":10561,"date":"2025-04-26T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T11:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2025-04-26T08:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T12:03:27","slug":"former-town-manager-growth-in-londonderry-the-lowest-since-the-1920s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10561","title":{"rendered":"Video: Former Town Manager Growth in Londonderry, the lowest since the 1920&#8217;s?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Town Manager, Kevin Smith addresses the Town Council, sharing a historical perspective on\u00a0Londonderry&#8217;s population growth, which he argues has been\u00a0far higher in previous decades\u00a0than it is currently. Smith highlights significant growth spurred by factors like the completion of I-93 and discusses\u00a0measures the town took to manage rapid expansion\u00a0in the past. Smith expresses concern that the\u00a0current slow growth rate, the lowest since the 1920s, combined with a\u00a0declining school population\u00a0and the\u00a0inability of young people to afford housing, poses challenges for the town&#8217;s future, particularly impacting seniors through rising taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his presentations Smith did not disclose he is now a consultant for a number of developers in town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former Town Manager Speaks on Growth in Londonderry, the lowest since the 1920&#039;s?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nhpyXfy4-1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Town Manager, Kevin Smith addresses the Town Council, sharing a historical perspective on\u00a0Londonderry&#8217;s population growth, which he argues has been\u00a0far higher in previous decades\u00a0than it is currently. Smith highlights significant growth spurred by factors like the completion of I-93 and discusses\u00a0measures the town took to manage rapid expansion\u00a0in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10565,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions\/10565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}