Shane Reese (Apex Town Council, North Carolina, candidate 2025)
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Shane Reese is running for election to the Apex Town Council in North Carolina. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Reese completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Shane Reese provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on September 8, 2025:
- Birth place: Reynoldsburg, Ohio
- High school: Apex High
- Bachelor's: North Carolina State University
- Gender: Male
- Profession: Communications
- Incumbent officeholder: No
- Campaign slogan: Your Neighbor. Working for You.
- Campaign website
- Campaign endorsements
- Campaign Facebook
- Campaign Instagram
Elections
General election
The general election will occur on November 4, 2025.
General election for Apex Town Council (3 seats)
The following candidates are running in the general election for Apex Town Council on November 4, 2025.
Candidate | ||
| Aditya Ahlawat (Nonpartisan) | ||
TJ Evans (Nonpartisan)  | ||
| Ed Gray (Nonpartisan) | ||
 | Mary Miskimon (Nonpartisan) | |
 | Sue Mu (Nonpartisan) | |
| Kyrone Nebolisa (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Andre Powell (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Shane Reese (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Shane Reese completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Reese's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Ensuring responsible growth: I will act as a vigilant watchdog for new developments to promote sustainable, well-planned growth, including rejecting slash-and-build construction and encouraging homes at price points that welcome a variety of backgrounds and incomes. A key component of responsible growth is holding developers accountable for the 35% resource conservation area (RCA) ordinance, which is the strongest tree protection policy in the state. I’ll advocate for stronger requirements that preserve a meaningful percentage of existing canopy -- not just around the edges -- and also push to require the planting of larger, native trees that provide true green space and noise buffering.
- Boosting Business and Promoting Downtown: I believe boosting business is critical in order to rebalance our 82% residential/18% commercial-industrial tax base. I believe we need to expand our highly successful LaunchAPEX program to better meet the needs of tech startups. We also need to offer our Economic Development Department every tool necessary to recruit and capture the vendors and startups that will serve the NC Children's Hospital, a once-in-a-generation economic development opportunity. Another opportunity I support is fast-tracking the Downtown Plan so we can enhance the heart of Apex as a small business and cultural hub for our entire community.
- Protecting Our Small-Town Character: Maintaining the neighborly spirit and sense of belonging that makes Apex the "Peak of Good Living" by building more greenways, expanding parks, and extending sidewalks, creating spaces where families can connect and neighbors can gather. In addition to my strong support for more community infrastructure, one issue I've campaigned on as part of "protecting our small-town character" is the opportunity for the Town to purchase land -- as an example, the Parks & Rec Master Plan calls for 65 acres to be purchased. Especially if these purchases are made closer to Jordan Lake, it will also help protect our town's main water source.
- Democratic Municipal Officials (DMO)
- Former U.S. Congressman Wiley Nickel
- N.C. Senate Minority Leader Sydney Batch
- N.C. Senator Lisa Grafstein
- N.C. House Representative Ya Liu
- N.C. House Representative Maria Cervania
- N.C. House Representative Julie von Haefen
- Wake County Commissioner Vickie Adamson
- Wake County Commissioner and former Apex Town Council Member Cheryl Stallings
- Wake County Board of Education Chair Chris Heagarty
- Apex Mayor Pro Tem and Council Member Ed Gray
- Apex Town Council Member Audra Killingsworth
- Apex Town Council Member Terry Mahaffey
- Apex Town Council Member Arno Zegerman
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See also
2025 Elections
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