Independent County Supervisor Candidate Takes Issue With ...
By Valerie Garner
On May 4 Carter Turner filed as an Independent to run for the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors, Catawba District. In an interview at the time Carter said, “at the local level party affiliation gets in the way … it is not to work for party – it is to work for people.”
Turner, 41, is an Assistant Professor of the Philosophy of Religious Studies at Radford University. He ran as a Democrat against then Delegate Morgan Griffith in 2009.
In a phone call Tuesday, Turner said he never entertained running under a party label. He believes that overly-rigid party affiliations hinder collaboration and problem solving. “We treat our political party loyalties like sports teams – with the only goal “defeating the other party,” he said. Turner vehemently contended that “it is not a game; these are problems that impact peoples’ lives and they need to be solved.”
Turner explained the importance of communication and listening to others. “As an Independent, I feel I can better facilitate this kind of environment.”
Turner said he believes in a local government that focuses on core missions like public safety, education, job growth, and health. He’d “take a very diagnostic approach” to the county using data driven facts to prioritize needs.
Revitalization of west Roanoke County is one of Turner’s main focus areas. “Glenvar’s equal proximity to downtown Roanoke, that includes VT Carilion Medical School, and Virginia Tech will largely define its future. If the Board of Supervisors continues to view Glenvar as the county’s industrial waste zone, we’ll miss our opportunity to attract the high paying, high-tech companies that need to be in Virginia Tech’s and Carilion’s orbit and bring revenue to the county,” he said.
Turner spearheaded the asphalt plant fight in Glenvar to prevent it from defining the district as an “industrial waste zone.”
“Had the Board rezoned the old Salem Water Treatment Plant to ‘Heavy Industry’ so [the Adams Construction] asphalt plant could be put there, the entire corridor would have quickly followed and 460/11 would have become a tunnel of industry causing further air pollution,” said Turner. He claims that Glenvar school air quality is in the bottom 25th percentile in the nation and the plant would also have reduced the surrounding property values.
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