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An Island chemist and biotech entrepreneur is entering the race to become Charlottetown’s next mayor.<\/p>\n
Amir Zuccolo announced on Friday that she will formally launch her campaign at a public event on July 30, ahead of the city’s municipal election in the fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cCharlottetown is rapidly changing and growing, and I think that we need a new vision for leadership on how to achieve goals around housing and transportation to get our city to a place that we need to be,\u201d Zuccolo told CBC News.<\/p>\n
She said housing policy should focus on attracting and retaining people the city needs, including health-care workers, teachers and early childhood educators, by ensuring they can find places to live and build community.<\/p>\n
She is calling for improvements to public transit and infrastructure for walking and cycling, along with greater public involvement in city planning and decision-making. Her platform also includes reducing closed-door council meetings.<\/p>\n
On climate preparedness, Zuccolo said the city should move beyond declaring a climate emergency and focus on preparing for extreme weather events such as hurricanes, heatwaves and cold snaps.<\/p>\n
Originally from North Vancouver, B.C., Zuccolo moved to P.E.I. in 2012 to teach in the department of chemistry at UPEI before moving into the biotechnology sector.<\/p>\n
She later co-founded a biotech company, served as a councillor in the Rural Municipality of Brackley, and has worked in the non-profit sector and on many active transportation initiatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that I have the skills, expertise and interpersonal relationship communication style that makes me well-suited to be the mayor,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-824180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}