Victoria Watlington
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3,394 appearances
31 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 17 Aug
Victoria Watlington’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Transportation planning organizations, going out and continuing to find a way to advance together is important.
Whether it's calling members of the MPTA or crypto or calling on regional mayors, calling on others to say, all right, we need to sit around the table and identify how we're going to address the demands that we have with our growth and the demands that we have so people can continue to enjoy a quality of life here.
And we have to do that strategically, but it has to be people first and people centered.
And so that's what I would say.
I mean, I am firmly supportive of making sure our neighborhoods have connectivity, making sure folks can continue to enjoy the neighborhoods that they built, but also balancing that with our growth demands.
And so I think a path forward is to say,
when we come back around the table and and nothing is in my career i've learned that you got to give a little bit and you got to be able to you know sort of there's a push and pull and there's a dynamic in place where nobody will get a hundred percent of everything they want but i've been able to work with different groups and say how do we build a coalition
advance a solution and deliver results for our people that everybody can live with and that everybody will be proud of in some way.
Everybody won't get 100%, but that's what it takes to lead and govern is to find a solution and find a path forward.
I would work outside of the process doing the things I've been doing for my entire life, which are showing up, listening actively, leading intentionally, building coalitions across sectors, working with stakeholders.
Again, the significance of building relationships and working with stakeholders, working with local neighborhood groups, working with corporate partners, working with
neighborhood partners working with all of the folks that it takes to get things done.
That's how I would show up to continue to advance processes.
It's the ways that I've always shown up with communication, with active listening, trust, transparency, and also an acknowledgement that I don't have all the answers.
So I don't have all the answers.
You all are listening to your different constituencies and representing different perspectives.
And that's a difficult process.
But through that process and through being out hearing from folks,
advocating i mean you really in this role have to be someone who's willing to pick up the phone go to raleigh go to washington go to the places and sit with the people even when you disagree and say how do we get to a point in a place of agreement to advance charlotte's priorities
for Charlotte's people.
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