Growth and development. Let’s set the conditions for success. Before we build anymore high density housing we need to ensure we have the infrastructure in place to support it; Police/Fire, medical services, mass transit, parking, and location, location, location. The last two High Density Housing developments just added to the already frustrating traffic we have.

First Responders First. Maintaining the high standards and ethics displayed by our Police Department, ensuring they have the resources for personnel and equipment.

Sustaining our Fire Department’s ISO Class One rating and helping them improve their aging infrastructure. Saving a few minutes in their response time can literally mean saving a life.

Protect our aging population and our Veterans from sky rocketing rents. Let’s not put our seniors and vets onto the street. We need to either build more housing to drive rent prices down or place stricter controls on rent increases, especially in our mobile home parks.

Bring in the homeless. This is not just a Huntington Beach problem. This is a regional problem and we need to partner with our neighboring cities to build a regional plan. And the County needs to help. Let’s pool our resources, identify a central location that is secure and discreet to bring folks to where they can receive care and assistance. There is no immediate, reasonable solution to homelessness. It will take time, patience, and effort. But, we can’t allow the constant problems associated with people who shower naked at the beach, leave drug paraphernalia in our parks, build shanty towns with no sanitation accountability, and threaten our residents. We need to maintain our partnership with non-profit organizations to put people back into homes and the workforce. Detaining them in jail isn’t a long term solution.
 

HB has amazing parks and community services. Let’s sustain that by not rezoning our parks and keeping them well maintained.
 

With COVID restrictions minimized, we have to revisit Downtown’s current footprint. Leave it as is or reopen the streets? The way it is now allows for a much greater amount of tourists and consumers to avail themselves to those businesses. Residents need to vote on this.

Protect small businesses, ensure they are able to thrive. Their success is everyone’s success. Large corporations from out of state are coming in and buying commercial property, then are forcing small mom and pop businesses out. The City Council can change how licenses in this town are approved and managed. Let’s protect our own people from corporate overreach.