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Nominee Emmanuel Craft frames council role around food recovery and housing priorities
Summary
Nominee Emmanuel Craft described his food-recovery experience and urged council to prioritize affordability, predictability and inclusivity in the zoning rewrite; he said volunteers retrieve food that would otherwise go to landfills and get it to people who need it.
Emmanuel Craft, whose name was drawn as a nominee during the council’s appointment procedure, described community work on food recovery and outlined top priorities he would pursue on council: affordability, predictability and inclusivity during a zoning rewrite.
Craft described personal conversations about food recovery and said volunteers retrieve usable food that otherwise would be discarded and distribute it to neighbors in need: “what we do is we take food that would be going to the landfills and we get it to people who need it,” he said. He tied food security to broader needs such as healthcare, education and housing and emphasized that his intent if selected would not be to enact sweeping immediate changes but to ensure the final zoning outcome reflects community priorities.
Craft and other nominees also urged council to broaden attention beyond the downtown core and to pursue outreach across the community as zoning and budget decisions progress.
