Danielle Mead Seeks District 5 Seat in Cathedral City
CATHEDRAL CITY — Danielle Mead, who moved to this community five years ago with her husband, is seeking a seat on the City Council representing District 5. The seat is currently held by Mayor Raymond Gregory who has said he will not run for re-election this year.
On the same day Gregory announced he would not seek another term; he endorsed Antonio Baciu as his successor.
District 5 includes the Panorama, La Posada, Verano, and Rio Vista (East) neighborhoods.
“Cathedral City has made real progress over the last decade, but we still have roads that need repaving, streets that flood, empty storefronts, and not enough affordable housing,” Mead told Uken Report. “Building the city we want to become requires both political will and the right tools. Our new development code will give us the foundation to shape the city’s future, but only if we use it with intention. Serving on the Planning Commission and the development code steering committee has given me the perspective to see what’s possible and the experience to make it happen.”
When Mead and her husband arrived in Cathedral City, they “We found exactly the kind of community we’d been looking for: real neighbors, real character, and a city with so much potential,” Mead wrote in a Facebook post.
She got involved by joining the Historic Preservation Committee, then the Planning Commission. She served on the Steering Committee for the Development Code Update, the tool the city will use to grow and develop over decades to come.
“The more I learned, the more I knew: Cathedral City can do better than the status quo,” Mead wrote.
Her campaign is built upon a simple promise: Fix What’s Broken. Grow Our Economy. Build for Our Future.
Mead says she is not running for a title. She’s running because she believes Cathedral City “can be so much more than it is right now.”
That takes a councilmember with a real vision for our future, not someone who just goes through the motions, she writes.
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