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Why I'm Running for Mayor

Controlled Growth
Transparency
Improve School Relationships

I am running for mayor of Dublin in order to insist on some discipline for whatever the next big decision is. 

What we need:

  • Maintain Open Space - I am firmly against Measure II. Measure II REDUCES Open Space. My councilmember opponents put Measure II on the ballot.

  • More focus on schools – City plans and decisions affect students and parents.

  • Controlled Growth! - our city council has continued to increase the number of housing unit beyond what they were originally zoned for. This needs to stop.

  • Affordable For-sale Housing built like our municipal code intends. The City needs to stop making deals with developers that result in fewer afforadable inclusionary homes.

  • Infrastructure for the new Downtown.  The developer needs to chip in and share the cost... not just Dublin.

  • jobs that pay enough to live in Dublin - before we continue with more homes that will produce more commuters and more students than our schools should handle.

  • Improve traffic flow through technology (e.g. Pittsburgh, PA)

  • Transparency in our city government.

 

What we don’t need:

  • another large housing development before getting some high paying jobs to support it.

  • a 6-lane $150 Million super road to Livermore that we don’t have money for – a simple 4-lane road is sufficient to accommodate the Economic Development Zone.

  • an 8-story, $75 Million parking garage paid for by Dublin taxpayers in the new Downtown.

  • 3000 new Downtown residents in 3 square blocks. What will traffic look like? A great many of them will be crawling through the narrow streets and getting on the freeway for the morning commute.

Somewhere in the 2000's Dublin started to change. Dublin annexed 1100 acres of county open space and opened it up to development. Houses grew on the sides of the hills. Buildings got taller and less appealing. I had my daily life of work and family like we all do… but after several years of seeing Dublin go through substantial changes I started to question what our City leadership was doing. In short, I’ve watched out City Council make bad choices time after time. Around 2019 I started asking questions at the City, I started to make public comment to offer my opinion – don’t build so fast if you don’t have to, don’t spend so much if you don’t have to. Our City government likes to talk about the great things they are doing, but they are very vague about the finances that go with it.

 

I want to have a City government that is transparent. Talk about the finances of the major projects. STOP making up sound bites that disguise their real intent. I also came to the realization that even though it appears that Dublin is pretty much at "build out" on paper, our leadership is not done making changes. Here come the bulldozers. I have decided to run for mayor in order to guide our city away from the "bigger is better" development mentality.  I would rather focus on better communication, safety, what we can do for schools, and quality of life.

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