"But we also want to work with residents to have the least impact upon them."
They're giving me a chance to work with the residents.
Yet he'd certainly seen exactly what she described happen with his own residents.
With 725,000 residents, it has more than half the county's population of 1.3 million.
That has not been especially popular with the residents who live there.
"It's very important for us to have a good community relationship with the residents here," he said.
It is a city with over 30,000 residents and employees.
With 3.6 million residents, the island has a larger population than about half the states.
City officials met with local residents and encouraged them to get involved.
The mayor said she has been meeting with concerned residents.