AI (not) managing cities

[Ignopotens]

Local elections? *shrugs*

[bovi]

When you have built most of the available buildings in a settlement, the AI governor will attempt to raise the population to the next settlement level (so that you can get more advanced buildings there). You can avoid this by setting the priority to financial. Similarly, you can overrule the normal mode of getting max money by setting priority to growth, which always sets taxes to the lowest.