Portburg #1 - First council meeting

The new mayor wakes up after a good nights sleep, he arrived late last night to take up office as the mayor in Portburg. Hope I can handle this he thought for himself the town seems to be in a pretty bad shape. But that was why he took the job in the first place, he's know around the country for turning around cities that are doing poorly. So when the offer came from Portburgs city council he couldn't say no. It's a big challenge yes, but not impossible.

He pulled the curtain to the side and watched down the Portburg Avenue which seemed to bustling with activity.


After a while he was dressed and headed down to the meeting room downstairs, his first meeting with the deputy mayor Andrew and the council would begin soon. Upon entering the meeting room he shook hands with the whole council. Andrew opened the meeting which today mostly would focus on getting the new mayor ready for his new task. He started by showing pictures of the city. 

Here's an overview photo of the city I have marked out the four different boroughs as well as some districts of interest.


Downtown Portburg is the primary borough where most of the citizens live. It's also the oldest part of this town founded in 1901 when Portburg General Machines (PGM) opened their first factory down by the coast. 


Here's the second borough called South Side. This borough was founded shortly after the downtown when the managers at the PGM factory wanted to build larger houses for themselfs and their families. It's the least populated borough in Portburg.


The third borough is East Side, located closest to the harbour and the industries there. Historically this has been the poorest of the boroughs with many low educated people working on the factory floor. 


And finally here's the fourth and last borough, called Portburg cliffs. Mostly made up of detached housing and is the borough of choice by the citizens in the middle class. 


The Portburg harbour isn't formally a borough since there's no residents living here, the area is just made up of industries of different kind with the PGM factory as the biggest employeer. 

After that briefing and the following discussion about the state of the town and how to change it Andrew put forward an old dusty documents folder, the paper had started to turn yellow and said.
"It's the 1958 General Plan of Portsburgs Development called GPPD. I found it in drawer down in the old archive, maybe it can be of some use."


It was really an ambitious plan they had back in 1958 the mayor thought. Maybe this plan can become useful in the future when we hopefully expand this town again.