The City of Williamsburg

The City of Williamsburg, Virginia is a dynamic community in which both students and full-time residents live in close proximity.  As such, the Student Assembly maintains close relations with the Williamsburg City Council and other Williamsburg City officials in order to ensure that the student voice is being heard.

Please review the links to the left for helpful information on living in the Williamsburg area.  Additionally, please feel free to contact relevant City Council members or City officials with any questions or feedback.  They'd love to hear from you!

A letter from Williamsburg Mayor Jeanne Zeidler:

Dear William and Mary Students,

On behalf of the Williamsburg City Council, I would like to say how pleased we are to be part of this new website to facilitate information sharing and communication between the City and students.  This is an exciting new vehicle for fostering mutual understanding and sharing points of view, and we thank the Student Assembly for taking the lead in this important effort. It is also the perfect online complement to our personal interactions – whether at the Stryker Building, community meetings, neighborhood block parties, the yearly concert at Lake Matoaka, or merely walking downtown.

Students comprise roughly half of the City’s population and you are an integral part of our community, both as vibrant, intellectually curious residents but also through the many volunteer hours of community service you give to the City. From the time the students at the college lobbied the Burgesses to move the capitol from Jamestown to what would become the City of Williamsburg, the City and College have worked together to enhance our quality of life. That’s a tradition we want to continue.

As you explore this new site, I would also encourage you to check out the City website, www.williamsburgva.gov, where you can watch council meetings live and taped on streaming video; our Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/Williamsburg.Virginia; and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/WilliamsburgGov.

The blue welcome signs we post throughout the City the first few weeks of each year are more than a gesture.  We on City Council value and serve all of our residents – whether you live here for a few months, a few years, or a lifetime.  Together we can ensure a vibrant City now and in the future.

Jeanne Zeidler