What’s important to me?
The most essential thing to me is that I represent community. I represent you. My role as City Councilor is to be a voice for the residents of Ward 2 and the City of Lakewood. I will do that through collaboration, compassion, accessibility, and a focus on equity.
Affordable & Attainable Housing
Attainable housing should accommodate the changing demographics of our society including ample affordable housing, compact building design, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, cooperative housing, higher density around multi-modal transportation like light rail, and equitable distribution of neighborhood amenities like public parks.
Growing Hyper-Local Communities
Pedestrian-friendly, mixed use, attractive, multi-modal communities support local economies, preserve local businesses, keep open space and natural habitats outside City limits wild, and foster in-person connection, human health, and neighborhood vitality because they keep people rooted in their local neighborhoods. Placemaking in cities can have a profound effect on the human experience.
Environmental and Climate Change Planning & Design
Cities should be built to minimize environmental impacts and foster long-term adaptability to climate change including planting trees, increasing pedestrian and non-car transportation accessibility, building toward environmental design guidelines, and improving shade equity for all.
Increasing Human Connection
City planning has the ability to either increase human connection or detract from it. What we prioritize and build says everything about what we value as a City. We should always work toward increasing and promoting free, equitable amenities that increase human connection including parks, open spaces, community gathering spaces like local coffee shops, galleries, and other. Whenever possible, these amenities should be free of charge, open to all, and easy to access via bike, bus, and pedestrian routes.
