We might as well crowdsource more questions, then, if we’re going to end up with an email full of them from the community. Maybe they could use some editing and rewording, but how do y’all feel about these?
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Do you oppose development on principle? What do you think justifies permission to erect new buildings or other infrastructure? (Most of these questions prime the candidates to think about specific issues, so we might as well have open questions to let their implicit biases and/or pet causes peek out?)
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In your eyes, what’s an example of a successful development or rezoning case? (surely, even naysayers have “bright spots” they look to for guidance… right?)
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The City is creating an Office of Community Engagement to engage citizens on local issues in more salient ways than the old CAC system. Do you support this? What will you do to engage and balance your constituents’ priorities in important city decisions? (this is admittedly an obscure-but-potentially-groundbreaking thing; see here for more discussions on the topic)
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Raleigh has not succeeded on its own, but it has grown quickly thanks, in part, due to additional housing and jobs in other cities in the Triangle as well as traffic between them. Do you see this as a strength or a weakness? What will you do as a council member to continue our success as a region as well as an independent city? (we never really talk about the localism-versus-regionalism debate explicitly, even though it informs a lot of decisions like commuter rail or affordable housing)