We made it through a roller coaster of a year in Charlotte city government in 2021. With a year like that, what’s ahead in 2022? Guest host Erik Spanberg gathers a roundtable to cover transit, affordable housing, staffing and more.
Charlotte’s planning director, Assistant City Manager Taiwo Jaiyeoba, is taking a job as Greensboro’s city manager. It’s a big promotion for Jaiyeoba, but it comes as Charlotte is putting together its unified development ordinance and just a few months after the city passed its 2040 plan something Jaiyeoba played a major role in crafting.
Greensboro will have a new city manager in 2022. Earlier this week, City Council announced that it hired Taiwo (Tai) Jaiyeoba as the next city manager. Jaiyeoba comes to Greensboro from Charlotte where he currently serves in a dual capacity as assistant city manager and director of the Planning, Design and Development Department.