Greg Waite was born and raised in Northeastern Ohio before making his way to Kentucky in 1990 to be a firefighter with the Independence Fire District. After he graduated high school, Waite served four years in the United States Navy. Waite retired as a Lieutenant after 34 years as firefighter. He is currently on the Independence City Council and served on the Kenton County Code Enforcement Board.

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Greg Waite is originally from Northeastern Ohio.

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Greg Waite retired as a lieutenant after 34 years as a firefighter with the Independence Fire District. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years.

Greg retired as a lieutenant after 34 years as a firefighter with the Independence Fire District. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years.

Greg Waite: I bring a lot of knowledge to this council, having served 6 years to date. I also served on the code enforcement board for 2 years, I have finished the first level of trading and nearly finished with the next of the KLC trading program. I love my community; I am heavily involved in this City, and I would be honored to serve again.

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Greg served on the Independence City Council for six years as of 2022.

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As of September 15, 2026, Greg Waite did not have a website or any information online.

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Most of the Independence candidates this year are incumbents: Tom Brinker, Carol Franzen, Dave Shafer, Greg Steffen, Chris Vogelpohl and Greg Waite. The challengers are Chris Barbour, Matt Fehler and Bryan Roemer.
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There were a handful of recurring themes in LINK nky’s correspondence with the candidates, namely development, public safety and infrastructure.
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At any rate, most candidates were cautiously optimistic about development in the city.

Waite, a former firefighter, stated that the city needs to focus on “smart development. We cannot stop everything that’s proposed, but we can be smart on how things are developed.”

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“Growth is inevitable for one thing,” Waite said, “but it’s how you maintain that growth. We have to do it in a smart way.”

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When discussion flagged, Mayor Reinersman reopened the council meeting and asked for a motion on the second reading of the ordinance that changed the zoning to permit the map amendment and concept development plan.

The silence was deafening.

Finally, Councilmember Greg Steffen made a motion to deny the development. Council member Carol Franzen seconded the motion. In addition to Steffen and Franzen, Matthew Fehler, and Chris Vogelpohl voted yes to deny, while Tom Brinker and Greg Waite voted no. It was a difficult vote for the members, and a few admitted they were torn about it.

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Advocates for managing development and city growth in a “smart” way.

Voted against a motion to deny a zoning change that would permit a development.

- Advocates for managing development and city growth in a “smart” way.
- Voted against a motion to deny a zoning change that would permit a development.

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Greg Waite: I think we face the same issues as most cities, affordable housing, park vandalism, and getting better streets. We have experienced rapid growth and with that comes the need for services to be met. I don’t want retention in our departments to feel like a revolving door. We have worked on keeping our staff competitive with other cities as far as pay. We need to offer more money training opportunities for all departments.

We would all benefit from a well experienced Police Force and our great Public Works department.

Advocates for competitive pay and additional training opportunities for city departments to improve employee retention.

- Advocates for competitive pay and additional training opportunities for city departments to improve employee retention.

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“If we can get a grasp of what the values are going up and adjust that down to where we lower the tax rate where you’re not paying anymore, that might be something to really look at,” Waite said.

Greg Waite: We have been able the last 2 years to reduce taxes.

Said the city had reduced taxes and should consider lowering tax rates as property values rise to avoid higher tax payments.

- Said the city had reduced taxes and should consider lowering tax rates as property values rise to avoid higher tax payments.

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