My platform is built around three goals for Lafayette: to make our city safer, happier, and healthier. Here is where I stand.
Protecting lives, homes, and our streets.
Fire risk is real but solvable. A NOAA satellite can detect wildfire within minutes, yet ConFire receives none of that data today.
As we measurably lower vegetation-fire risk, insurers will return and premiums will ease. I will treat the insurance crisis as the emergency it is.
The Moraga Road corridor has been our most congested street for more than 30 years and is the chokepoint to our only public middle school.
Most crashes are not simply “human error” — they are the predictable result of how we design our streets.
In 2024, Americans 60 and older reported losing nearly $4.9 billion to fraud. Our older neighbors are targeted hardest and should never have to face it alone or feel ashamed.
A vibrant, connected, well-run community.
Being connected to our neighbors makes us happier. I will work to bring back Community Day and the traditions that knit Lafayette together.
Sound finances, attainable housing, sustainable mobility.
As a CCCERA trustee helping oversee a multi-billion-dollar public pension fund, I see how unfunded liabilities compound when they are ignored. I will bring that investor’s discipline to the City budget.
My platform is built around three goals for Lafayette: to make our city safer, happier, and healthier. Here is where I stand.
Protecting lives, homes, and our streets.
Fire risk is real but solvable. A NOAA satellite can detect wildfire within minutes, yet ConFire receives none of that data today.
As we measurably lower vegetation-fire risk, insurers will return and premiums will ease. I will treat the insurance crisis as the emergency it is.
The Moraga Road corridor has been our most congested street for more than 30 years and is the chokepoint to our only public middle school.
Most crashes are not simply “human error” — they are the predictable result of how we design our streets.
In 2024, Americans 60 and older reported losing nearly $4.9 billion to fraud. Our older neighbors are targeted hardest and should never have to face it alone or feel ashamed.
A vibrant, connected, well-run community.
Being connected to our neighbors makes us happier. I will work to bring back Community Day and the traditions that knit Lafayette together.
Sound finances, attainable housing, sustainable mobility.
As a CCCERA trustee helping oversee a multi-billion-dollar public pension fund, I see how unfunded liabilities compound when they are ignored. I will bring that investor’s discipline to the City budget.
We are not a rural community set in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Our zip code is not even in the State’s database for areas particularly affected by insurance company withdrawal but there has still been too much of an increase in cost and a decrease in security for our community.
Fire risk to our community is real but much more tractable than earthquakes. There are only a few directions where catastrophic vegetation fires could originate and detecting wildfire is not a technological challenge. There is a NOAA geo-stationary satellite that can detect wildfire within 5 minutes and, with inexpensive technological tweaks, we could have that automatically send notification. Today, Con Fire does not get any information from this satellite, but we can take proactive steps on our own to protect our community. I support a substantial increase in sensors and smart cameras so that our Police Department and Con Fire will know immediately about risky fires. As we reduce the risk of vegetation fire, insurance companies will return and premiums will fall.
If neighborhoods want to underground power lines, the City must support them in this effort as they negotiate with the unresponsive behemoth that is PG&E. PG&E should incorporate more variables in determining whether they will underground wires and should respond to community desires. We can take steps to protect our community if we are bold enough!
Top-down mandates from Sacramento will not build houses. We need a holistic, all-hands approach to reduce the cost of construction and create the right incentives for developers. The city can play its part by speeding up the plan review process (AI will help but we must invest in preparing our processes and data in order to take advantage of digitalization), and reducing the uncertainty of the planning and the court system. We should explore "pre-approvals" of designs that have survived legal challenges and look into providing insurance guarantees for fire risk while projects are under construction as a means to encourage development.
I propose a voluntary and temporary fee to be offered to the construction community. This fee would allow for a temporary contractor to expedite plan review and prepare our process for digitalization and the pending breakthroughs that (I believe) AI will allow. Our city struggles to attract staff and we face retirements over the medium term so there is no time to waste in harnessing digitalization.
The lack of housing supply makes it hard for our children to hope to live and work in the area. I support growth and I know that land use decisions are difficult but locating a traffic-creating Affordable Housing Project on 949 Moraga Road makes no sense. Moraga Road/St. Mary's/Mt. Diablo has been identified as too congested during school hours for more than 30 years in urban planning reports. This chokepoint to our only public middle school is already too congested and becomes a public health/safety risk for emergency services, if built.
As Moraga expands its housing stock, they could easily have 5,000 more residents and they are going to use Moraga Road to get to the freeway. Until there are flying cars or some other change to our traffic flows, I cannot support a large affordable housing project on Moraga Rd that brings 100+ cars with it. Affordable Housing that allows for Elderly and/or Special Needs Housing could make sense but we have to be smart about NOT adding to traffic and BUILDING support for more Affordable Housing in Lafayette.
