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owlbrain t1_jbpm24w wrote

Not getting into the politics of the situation, but they did legitimately have a crazy large city council. 40 people?! Memphis, which is just barely smaller than Nashville, has only 13. For an out of state example, Chicago has almost 4x as many people as Nashville and has a 50 person City Council.

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comments_suck t1_jbpv7ov wrote

Nashville is a Metro government, though. Meaning that the city and the county it is in are combined. I've never lived there, but if they think 40 seats are good, who am I to argue with them?

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owlbrain t1_jbq25ti wrote

Nashville is effectively the entire county by population. 690,000 of the 716,000 in the county live in Nashville city limits.

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