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<\/a>\nCurrent Occupation: President of J.T. Locke Resource Center<\/p>\n
Age: 48<\/a>
\nCurrent Occupation: President of J.T. Locke Resource Center<\/p>\n
Why have you decided to run for office?<\/em><\/strong> What do you think are the three biggest issues the city of Raleigh faces and how would you address them?<\/em><\/strong> Environmental is anoth\u00ader \u2014 making sure that, in the environment, that our water is not being wasted or contaminated, as well as our nature continue to be preserved.<\/p>\n The third one is our city is growing rapidly, espe\u00adcially Southeast Raleigh, so the UDO plan and the comp plan is a very big con\u00adcern for me for that area.<\/p>\n What do you think are the best and worst decisions the current city council has made?<\/em><\/strong> Right now the current UDO plan that they\u2019re trying to pass, that\u2019s one thing that I do not agree with because the zoning. They need to take a com\u00adprehensive, closer look at that plan because it will af\u00adfect the southeast Raleigh area.<\/p>\n What do you think is the most important issue facing your district and how would you address it?<\/em><\/strong> What do you think the city should do to house its public safety functions?<\/em><\/strong> How do you think the city should plan to meet its future water needs?<\/em><\/strong> I feel like taking another look at how many houses should be built on a piece of property. That would help preserve, and we\u2019re talking about the 2.2 pounds that they just passed, I think the law, of the 2.2 pounds that they can let so many toxins out. Eventually, that 2.2 pounds might go up. Who\u2019s going to monitor that closely, that it will stay within the ordinance of that cultivation? Who will protect the watershed?<\/p>\n How do you feel about impact fees?<\/em><\/strong> How do you feel about public transportation in Raleigh?<\/em><\/strong> The city has been given a million dollars to do whatever it wishes. What do you think the money should go to?<\/em><\/strong> Age: 48 Current Occupation: President of J.T. Locke Resource Center Why have you decided to run for office? I feel that there\u2019s a dis\u00adconnection between community and govern\u00adment, and I want to make a change to bring com\u00admunity and government together. What do you think are the three biggest issues the city of Raleigh faces […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24038,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[378],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24038"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI feel that there\u2019s a dis\u00adconnection between community and govern\u00adment, and I want to make a change to bring com\u00admunity and government together.<\/p>\n
\nOne is economic, which is getting job training in some of the lower-income family homes, which that\u2019s where I work at \u2014 get\u00adting them aware or get\u00adting them back, loosen up in trust in the government to get them back into the workforce or school.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019re now the second-largest city for people want\u00ading to move here, but mov\u00ading towards a metropolitan city is a good plan, but plan it correctly \u2014 that the low\u00ader-income people do not get left out. I think that is a very important piece. And I feel that our city needs to re-evaluate developers, making sure that develop\u00aders are going by the correct guidelines. And another thing is I feel the city needs a line-by-line audit from each department, mak\u00ading sure that our tax dol\u00adlars are being spent the way they need to be spent and not on unnecessary things.<\/p>\n
\nI think the most im\u00adportant thing that\u2019s facing that particular district is the low-income families. They do not trust govern\u00adment. It has to be a connec\u00adtion with the families, with people that maybe want to get jobs that cannot or the crime rate is built up. But they do not trust govern\u00adment because governments do not come in and work with them. I think the rep\u00adresentatives, in the past, have not really connected with them. That\u2019s some\u00adthing that I do often. I work with the children, the families, getting them trusted back with govern\u00adment to connect, to start moving them into a place that they want to get out and work. They want to get job training. And once we get that connection back together, that reconnec\u00adtion back together, I think people will start moving into finding what they can do best and how they can help themselves as well as helping their community.<\/p>\n
\nIf you\u2019re going to have one great, big building, you have to make sure that building is safe enough if anything happens, that it\u2019ll be able to evacuate quickly. Having everything in that building might not be a bad idea, but make sure it\u2019s safe enough.<\/p>\n
\nNot putting gray water in the community, that\u2019s one thing. The city needs to take a look at several dif\u00adferent things. You look at Falls Lake, and that\u2019s one of our main sources, and around the watershed, if you\u2019re going to build, have developers build and you\u2019re talking about building four houses on one acre, you\u2019re actually subject to have four houses on one acre instead of two houses on one acre. You\u2019re actually missing the point, that we still want clean water.<\/p>\n
\nI really haven\u2019t looked at it as much as I should. It\u2019s going to impact the lower-income people more than the people that really have jobs.<\/p>\n
\nPublic transportation needs fixing. We need to fix our public transportation before we do anything else. We have the R-Line that\u2019s free; we have the bus that goes around that they call the \u201cparty bus,\u201d that needs to be used for something besides just being the \u201cpar\u00adty bus.\u201d We need to really fix our public transporta\u00adtion in so many areas and so many ways. Expansion is growing in southeast Ra\u00adleigh, and it\u2019s expanding rapidly. So until we can fix our public transportation, I really don\u2019t see any other transportation coming in here until we fix what we have.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019re going to have to invest in fixing things that we have already that need fixing, like our public transportation, job train\u00ading, really trying to con\u00adnect with our community to get the job training to get these folks working. Really focusing on revital\u00adizing the correct way. The more you push people out\u00adside of the city, it\u2019s harder for them to get a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"