Ed Driggs

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13,582 appearances 62 recordings 3 series first heard Sep 2023 last heard 14 Sep

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I think Councilmember Graham is very correct in terms of location.

I also think that sometimes our priorities might be at odds because

Policy is more complex than putting numbers and attaching it to people.

Lived experiences also matter.

The quality of life that people experience every single day also matters, right?

It's not black and white.

There's definitely a lot of gray area that needs to be interpreted.

And if you're on the ground and if you're talking to community day in and day out, you'll understand that it's not just black

policy or policy wonkiness or just attaching numbers to people and saying, you know, just because this is an initiative, we have to go for it.

It's the lives of people.

And I don't know if my colleagues know this, but we received overwhelmingly letters of opposition of residents who live

in this neighborhood, right?

We weren't elected, with all due respect, I love staff.

We weren't elected by zoning staff.

We weren't elected by the zoning committee.

We weren't elected by bureaucracy.

We were elected by the residents and constituents of the city of Charlotte.

And we should listen to the residents and constituents of the city of Charlotte.

And right now, overwhelmingly, our inboxes are filled.

So what is representative democracy if we're not listening to the people that elected in the seats to begin with?

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