Carlsbad City Hall at 1200 Carlsbad Village Drive serves as the primary administrative hub for a city government overseeing 115,000 residents, a AAA credit rating, and one of the region's strongest growth-management programs. The building houses the Mayor's office, City Council chambers, and several front-facing departments, and sits within the same Carlsbad Village campus as the Carlsbad City Library on Dove Lane. Carlsbad's elected leadership comprises a mayor and four district council members who set policy on land use, public safety, infrastructure, and the city's operating budget. The council recently launched a Mills Act Program for historic-property preservation and approved a living-shoreline restoration project at Agua Hedionda Lagoon, initiatives managed from this Village Drive headquarters overlooking Magee Park and its Heritage Hall event pavilion. City Hall processes public-records requests, council-meeting testimony, and Citizens Academy enrollment, and broadcasts all council and commission sessions through the city's government-access channel.