Ed Driggs

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Charlotte City Council · City Council Business Meeting on 2026-04-27 5:30 PM - Apr 27, 2026 · 27 Apr 2026 meeting

This is yet another example of our corridors of opportunity.

which is a combination of both public and private investment to ensure that these corridors that we're working on are adequately funded, both from the public perspective and private donations to nonprofit organizations actually doing the work, having boots on the ground, providing services relating to health care, food deserts, and community development.

I'm not going to recite from it tonight, but it just reiterates

The reason this project is important, it tries to respond to some misconceptions that have fueled a lot of the opposition.

So we all have that motivation and share the concern of some of the protesters, but that doesn't mean we have to do their bidding.

And so what I'm asking is that we read this document and we keep an open mind and we just stay focused on getting the best outcome we can.

And any action right now that tries to get the CRTPO to intervene or to shut it down denies us the opportunity to see what is possible and what we might be able to get.

I believe the resolution that I appreciate is a powerful statement of our concern for our constituents and our values, and it will be a foundation for future conversations

But we must have those conversations.

And at some point, there is still every opportunity that we have now in the future to make a move to shut it down.

We really get to the point where we feel that's what we have to do.

So rather than take precipitous actions to shut it down right away, let's roll with this a bit.

Let's pass our resolution.

Let's make clear where we stand.

Hold NCDOT accountable.

I know that one of the reasons we're in this predicament is because the NCDOT didn't really handle this very well.

They started this process.

They did not recognize the sensitivity of those neighborhoods and the historical context.

And now we're trying to recover from that, frankly.

And I've been trying to recover from that.

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