Editor's Note: This is the third in a series profiling six candidates vying for two seats on the Murrieta City Council in the Nov. 4 election.

MURRIETA -- She still wears an old campaign pin and she says she has lost count of how many times she's run for City Council. This year, once again, Nancy Knight is throwing herself into the race for a seat at Murrieta's helm.

Knight, 64, said she continues to seek a voice as a city leader because she feels past and current administrations have approved development without attracting quality jobs to keep the high-earners within city limits during the day, without offering multiple options to those who need cheaper rents, and without incorporating more energy-efficient building methods to reduce the reliance on natural resources such as water.

"It appears they're bringing still more retail centers," Knight said, adding that city leaders should instead be pushing for the development of corporate buildings to fuel a high-end work force within the city. She's running, she said, because "I was approached and because it gives (voters) a choice."

Knight is one of six candidates running for two seats on the Murrieta City Council in the Nov. 4 election. The other candidates are high school teacher Paul Clay, 50; incumbent and electrical contractor, Warnie Enochs, 59; management consultant, David Landriscina, 53; Planning Commissioner and telecommunications executive, Randon Lane, 39; and incumbent and telecommunications executive, Doug McAllister, 49.

Knight, now retired, worked for 25 years in the health care industry as a research and development scientist in clinical diagnostics, she said. Along with a bachelor's degree in biology, Knight said she earned a master's in business administration.

After retiring, Knight helped her husband run his printing business, which later transformed into a monthly publication, The Bugle, which she leads now as editor.

Although she's never been elected, Knight has run for public office numerous times, seeking seats on the Murrieta City Council and the California State Assembly, Riverside County Board of Education and other elected seats, beginning in 1997, she said. This is her fifth attempt at running for a council seat in Murrieta.

But if elected, she said, she would use the knowledge she acquired while earning her MBA to actively seek opportunities to bring high-paying jobs to Murrieta.

"It's been an issue for a long time," Knight said. "We have an imbalance between housing and jobs. We need to focus on high tech (corporations). I know who you have to target to bring (companies) here; I know what they're looking for in terms of incentives."

Knight also feels city leaders have cluttered views by approving tall apartment buildings to satisfy state requirements for low-income housing development. She says she would drill developers who propose affordable housing projects to make sure they actually know what qualifies as such and proposes turning condominiums along Jefferson Avenue near Ivy Road into a mixed-use development that would feature commercial use on the ground floor and condominiums upstairs.

"A lot of them are vacant today," Knight said of the condominiums there. "So a better use is to find a new use."

Familiar with the restrictions of the California Environmental Quality Act, Knight said she would review closely all projects coming before the city. She would also aim to create partnerships with local public utilities districts to offer cheaper rates to building businesses and homeowners who allow their rooftops to be used for solar paneling.

Knight would also press heavily, she said, for improvements to environmentally friendly development, including drawing up city incentives to persuade residents to switch their green lawns for landscapes that use less water.

"Seventy percent of the water people use is for their lawn," Knight said. "We need to plant things that can be watered with (recycled) water (so we don't) have to pump water … to water our landscapes."

Contact staff writer Nelsy Rodriguez at (951) 676-4315, Ext. 2626, or nrodriguez@californian.com.

Nancy Knight

- Age: 64

- Occupation: Publisher

- Civic involvement: Southwest California Chamber of Commerce, founder; Numbers USA, member; UC Riverside, alumna and program speaker.

- E-mail: Nancy@TheBugle.com

CORRECTION: Political start misstated

The year Murrieta City Council candidate Nancy Knight began running for public office was incorrect in an article that ran on the front of the Local section on Aug. 28. Knight began running for office in 1997. We apologize.

CORRECTION: Several details incorrect in profile

An article that ran on the front page of the Local section in Thursday's edition of The Californian contained incorrect information on a candidate's plan. If elected in November to sit on the Murrieta City Council, candidate Nancy Knight, 64, would propose turning the condominium complex on the property around Temecula Valley Bank into a mixed-use project that would feature commercial uses on the ground floor and condominiums upstairs. She does not advocate the construction of new apartment buildings. Also, a statement attributed to Knight regarding vacant office suites on Los Alamos Road was in error. She was referring to vacant condominiums. In addition, Knight's plan to work with utility companies on energy issues involves solar and not wind energy.

We apologize.