Homewood voters will choose their next mayor and city council on Aug. 26. Candidates Greg Cobb, Chris Lane, John Manzelli and Keith Young are running to represent Ward 3.

They spoke with The Homewood Star about their candidacies. Here are answers to a key question about the race.

Q: How do you plan to guide development and manage growth — especially in areas adjacent to Samford University?

Greg Cobb: When you start developing along that watershed, you've got to protect your watershed, and all that development is going to increase your flood. No matter what you cover up the land, you're going to increase your flood. So it's going to start the Planning Commission, and I think that then it's got to go to the city council. So I think we've got checks and balances in place to control it a l

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