Victoria Watlington

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Charlotte City Council · City Council Special Meeting on 2026-06-18 12:00 PM - Mayoral Candidate Interviews - Jun 18, 2026 · 18 Jun 2026 meeting

Thank you.

In your opinion, what is the biggest issue or challenge facing our city today?

And I ask that with the understanding that we have lots of challenges.

But if you could pick the one that you believe is the biggest and speak to that.

So the biggest issue

And I'd reframe it also as the biggest opportunity facing our city is we're a world-class city, the secret is out and we're growing.

So our growth, the 150 plus people a day who are coming here, balancing that growth in a way that provides shared prosperity for all of our residents,

and a way that we make investments in corridors and communities across this city, and a way that says we're going to drive this forward with not only these core priorities, but with the fiscal responsibility and with the prioritizing resident voice and the bringing in of cross-sector stakeholders.

That's the biggest opportunity and challenge that I see because if you don't do that well,

you risk losing folks or leaving folks behind and you risk asking yourself, can our local teachers, can our firefighters, can our nurses, can our EMS workers, can our neighborhood coalition leaders and non-profit leaders and working families build a quality of life here?

I believe they can and will continue to build a quality of life here

if we manage growth well and support growth that provides benefits for all of our residents and their shared prosperity in that growth.

Councilwoman Owens, I appreciate the question.

And we hear from residents that congestion is a concern.

We also hear from residents and we understand from our neighbors that they want quality of life and they want their voices heard on these issues.

And so as we think about the next step and the path forward, again, I'm going to go back to trust.

So building trust with communities so things happen with people and not to them.

I'm going to go back to transparency and being open in deliberations as a group around this dais, but also open with the public in the process.

I'm going to go back to relationships.

So the relationships that I've built over the last two decades plus with legislative delegations and with...

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