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Sarasota News Leader March 1, 2013 Page 30 We really need to do something about The Final question: should you succeed and Quay. And we���re moving with lightning speed win a seat on the Sarasota City Commison these social workers for the homeless. sion, is there a tangible goal you want to achieve? ��� ��� ��� Holland: Both are tied together. My primaFinal question: should you succeed and ry goal is to achieve the balance between the win a seat on the Sarasota City Commisneighborhoods and the business/development sion, is there a tangible goal you want community. I���ve watched it for so long, and to achieve? sometimes we���ve gotten closer to it than other Chapman: Database decision-making. Reali- times. I feel that right now, we���re not. ty-based policymaking. I���ve always been considered a visionary, and many of my visions Are we ever going to achieve a perfect balhave come into reality because I���m not into ance? Absolutely not, but I feel like we were closer to that balance a little bit in the past, fantasy. and we���re not there now. It���s interesting: I���m being portrayed as the person who always says, ���No.��� Many of my vi- If I can bring my dedication to the neighborsions have been realized in this community. hoods and preserving the neighborhoods and fighting for the things the neighborhoods Examples? want, but also to the point where the neighChapman: The Women���s Legal Fund, the Men- bors don���t feel so strongly that the developtal Health Community Centers, the Hudson ment/business community is such an arch enBayou Neighborhood Association, the power emy, and that we cannot work together, and plant at the hospital with sound-management that���s the feeling I get when I sit there and technology, the lift station and upgrade of our listen to these discussions in the public hearentire sewage system, the modernizing of our ings. We don���t have to be enemies. And the business community doesn���t think the neighpolicing. borhoods are just a bunch of whiney babies. What do you want to accomplish? We���ve achieved a better balance in the past, Chapman: I would like to accomplish a deand I���d like to think I���d like to help bring that gree of problem solving between development balance where the scales are a little more and residential communities ��� where we can even. I live in a neighborhood, and there are talk to each other and work on things without certain things I don���t want right next door it being us-versus-them. to me. But I also understand that things are We are a community of high standards. I hope changing. we retain them. I���ve lived in my house for 32 years, and there are changes coming. % ��� ��� ���