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An Evaluation Of The City Of Danville-Pittsylvania County Annexation, Gerald A. Craver
An Evaluation Of The City Of Danville-Pittsylvania County Annexation, Gerald A. Craver
Theses and Dissertations
An insufficient amount of evaluation research has been conducted on Virginia's annexations. This study helps to fill that void by evaluating the Danville - Pittsylvania County annexation. The thesis attempts to determine if the city of Danville benefited from the annexation and if Pittsylvania County was able to recover from the loss that it suffered as a result of the annexation.
In order to evaluate the annexation, data was collected and analyzed for seven research categories: urban services, planning, demographics, community leadership, local government cooperation, economic development, and public finance. In addition, government documents were reviewed to collect information that …