Raleigh City Council - District E
Bonner Gaylord
The city of Raleigh commissioned a survey in 2016 which showed that transportation issues remain our residents’ top concern. Do you support the $206.7MM streets and sidewalk bond package which includes a 1.29-cent property tax increase?
Yes
Do you support a major league soccer stadium downtown?
Yes
Do you support the use of incentives for the attraction and retention of businesses?
Yes
What are you hoping to achieve as an elected official that will foster a healthy and innovative business environment in both the near and far term?
I hope to continue my track record of making wise civic investments to accommodate the 65 people a day who are moving here. Our growth makes us the envy of local economies nationwide and we must continue to be attentive to our economic development, transit, and affordable housing if we want to be a community of opportunity for all.
What would you like to see updated in the city’s Unified Development Ordinance related to land use, regulations and/or density that ensures our market remains competitive and attractive for business and residents?
Our city's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) is a significant improvement over our previous combined policies. The UDO encourages walkable, transit supportive, mixed-use urbanism that lowers the overall cost of living, doing business, and moving throughout our community. We must continue to shape our UDO to meet the most granular needs of our city's residents and businesses.
How will you balance increased infrastructure and personnel funding needs of the city while also addressing economic growth, affordability, and quality of life?
As guided by our comprehensive plan and UDO, we need to grow up and not out. Other cities, which have endeavored to tamp down density, have simply pushed least resourced citizens out of town and into surrounding suburbs contributing to increased costs of living and decreased quality of life. We must continue to focus on infill development, which is intrinsically more economical, more environmentally, culturally, and socially sustainable than any other approach. Our wisdom today will have cost-saving implications generations in to the future.
Identify two specific areas in the city budget where you might reduce spending and two specific areas where you might increase spending.
The city must continue to consider additional funds for affordable housing, as well as pursuing opportunities to act as a convener for nonprofits and human services organizations within our city. To reduce costs long term ,the city should continue to pursue wise investments in green infrastructure.
What is an uncomfortable truth about Raleigh that voters must confront?
Our past success is not a determinate of our future success. We must accommodate our growth, and we must grow in the most economically, socially, culturally, and environmentally sustainable way. Gro wing up and not out through walkable, vertically $integrated, transit supportive, mixed-use urban environments. Raleigh's growth must benefit all.
The city of Raleigh commissioned a survey in 2016 which showed that transportation issues remain our residents’ top concern. Do you support the $206.7MM streets and sidewalk bond package which includes a 1.29-cent property tax increase?
Yes
Do you support a major league soccer stadium downtown?
Yes
Do you support the use of incentives for the attraction and retention of businesses?
Yes
What are you hoping to achieve as an elected official that will foster a healthy and innovative business environment in both the near and far term?
I hope to continue my track record of making wise civic investments to accommodate the 65 people a day who are moving here. Our growth makes us the envy of local economies nationwide and we must continue to be attentive to our economic development, transit, and affordable housing if we want to be a community of opportunity for all.
What would you like to see updated in the city’s Unified Development Ordinance related to land use, regulations and/or density that ensures our market remains competitive and attractive for business and residents?
Our city's Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) is a significant improvement over our previous combined policies. The UDO encourages walkable, transit supportive, mixed-use urbanism that lowers the overall cost of living, doing business, and moving throughout our community. We must continue to shape our UDO to meet the most granular needs of our city's residents and businesses.
How will you balance increased infrastructure and personnel funding needs of the city while also addressing economic growth, affordability, and quality of life?
As guided by our comprehensive plan and UDO, we need to grow up and not out. Other cities, which have endeavored to tamp down density, have simply pushed least resourced citizens out of town and into surrounding suburbs contributing to increased costs of living and decreased quality of life. We must continue to focus on infill development, which is intrinsically more economical, more environmentally, culturally, and socially sustainable than any other approach. Our wisdom today will have cost-saving implications generations in to the future.
Identify two specific areas in the city budget where you might reduce spending and two specific areas where you might increase spending.
The city must continue to consider additional funds for affordable housing, as well as pursuing opportunities to act as a convener for nonprofits and human services organizations within our city. To reduce costs long term ,the city should continue to pursue wise investments in green infrastructure.
What is an uncomfortable truth about Raleigh that voters must confront?
Our past success is not a determinate of our future success. We must accommodate our growth, and we must grow in the most economically, socially, culturally, and environmentally sustainable way. Gro wing up and not out through walkable, vertically $integrated, transit supportive, mixed-use urban environments. Raleigh's growth must benefit all.
