“We need to explore eliminating or significantly reducing single-family zoning,” he said. “Cities across the country are doing this; it’s preventing us from building duplexes and triplexes and could help immensely.”

Though the candidates agree Charlottesville has been a focal point of racial inequality since the summer of 2017, they differed slightly in how they proposed addressing and ultimately correcting racial inequities.

Fenwick said when he served as a city councilor his door was usually closed because he was out in the community talking to people. The best way to learn about problems and inequalities, racial or otherwise, is to talk to constituents, he said.

“It’s a much more comfortable conversation if I talk to somebody in their place of business or in their home or even on the street,” he said.

Pinkston echoed a similar sentiment, pledging to canvas all parts of the community to find out exactly what residents of Charlottesville need changed.

“I grew up in the Deep South and as challenging as we find race inequity here, and it is, I am heartened that this community has an awareness and a desire to overcome the tragedies of the past,” he said.