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Long-time community advocate Nettie Coad hopes to be the next District 2 council member.

Coad said the City Council lacks a cohesive vision for the city.

“Who’s thinking about what we look like as we attempt to encourage industry and business?” she asked recently at her Martin Luther King Jr. Drive home.

Coad has worked on numerous city redevelopment projects, including in the Ole Asheboro neighborhood where she lives. She currently serves on the Greensboro Redevelopment Commission.

She said she is concerned about the amount of time it has taken to redevelop areas and how funds are allocated.

“For 30-plus years I have lived in this community," she said. "It has history. It has charm and beauty. We have struggled to maintain the quality of it.”

If elected, Coad said, she will be able to listen to people’s problems and collaborate with other council members to get them resolved.

Coad is the director of The Partnership Project, a group that runs anti-racism education and training sessions.

“We’ve got to appreciate what differences people bring,” she said.

Coad said the city should not reopen the White Street Landfill to household waste. She said it’s an issue of quality of life for the people who live around it.

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