Boulder '21 Election Voting Guide

Housing

• Increasing CO-OP Housing and ADU (accessory dwelling units)

• The annexation of CU South offers another great opportunity to add nearly 1,100 units of housing aimed at CU upperclassmen, staff, and faculty.

• Increase middle income housing

Homelessness

• does not support continued encampment sweeps, unless we have somewhere for our unhoused to go. His potential solutions?

  • Opening up a day shelter

  • Sanctioned camping grounds

  • Buying/leasing hotels to house our homeless

• Re-calibrating “Housing First Program”.  Only deny a person if:

  • If a person isn’t sober

  • If a person has a dog

  • Trauma related issues that intrinsically prohibit a person from feeling safe in a shelter.

• Providing Basic human needs services

  • Portable shower

  • Greater access to food

Climate Change

• Protection from wildfires

• Climate forward buildings and infrastructure

• Climate-forward agriculture

• Flood protection at CU South

Housing and Growth

• “The strategic growth I envision includes  a variety of housing types that meet the needs of people in all stages of life and are affordable for low, moderate, and middle-income households.”

Homelessness

• “I support the City’s camping ban, but it must be paired with robust services, including improved behavioral and mental health support and a long-term strategy, including county, regional, and state collaboration, to address the unhoused crisis.”

Climate 

• “We must reduce carbon emissions and support carbon sequestration. I encourage community programs and education that promote waste reduction, pollution control, and the use of alternative modes of transportation.”

Diversity and Inclusion

• “We must create an open and welcoming community in which people from all backgrounds feel accepted and valued.”

Public Health

• “I fully support the collaboration between the community and our public safety officials in developing the Police Department Master Plan.” (https://bouldercolorado.gov/projects/reimagine-policing)

Housing

• Boulder needs more affordable housing for those who make our community a better place. 

• We need to implement zoning regulations for locations and corporations, to protect threatened residential neighborhoods and to increase access to housing.

• If we build more housing, we must do it in an environmentally friendly way, using sustainable materials. 

Single Use Plastic

• We need to enact incentives towards sustainable plastic substitutes. A tax on single-use plastic would encourage consumers to make more sustainable choices.

• Plant-based plastic, glass, and aluminum are examples of more sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic.

Greywater Recycling

• Recycling sink and shower water into toilets can drastically cut down on water consumption.  

Increased solar in boulder

• We need to push Xcel to develop more solar gardens in Boulder.

• We need to provide more solar grants and battery storage capacity to Boulder houses, apartments, businesses, and public buildings.

• Access to affordable solar energy needs to be a priority in Boulder’s efforts to go green.

Passive Crypto-Income

• We can use city cryptocurrency to fund events, infrastructure developments, city start-ups, and much more.

• Boulder should create a treasury for solar-mined currency, to be monitored by the city and its citizens.

• Citizens can both create private crypto portfolios and also mine for the city.

Housing for all

• We should look at ways to encourage missing middle housing and gentle infill, such as townhomes, duplexes, triplexes, and co-housing.

• We need to create policies that encourage permanent affordability through land trusts and deed restrictions at all scales of development.

Climate Action

• We need to continue leveraging federal and state dollars to increase multimodal transportation infrastructure and increase investment in reliable, accessible and affordable electric public transit.

• We need to look at how restrictive zoning is increasing trip counts, and ways to make our existing neighbourhoods more walkable and bikeable.

Real Public Safety

• Crime prevention is a better tool for making our community safer than enforcement, and other communities have proven that it’s also more cost effective. By investing in institutions, resources, and services our community can grow and thrive.

• Healthcare, housing, job training, and counseling are all solutions that prevent crime. We need to stop looking to policing as a one-stop-solution to community problems.

Bridging the gaps in services

• Right now Boulder has no day shelter, no place where service providers and people in need of service can easily and regularly connect, no place outside of the court system to have mail or important documents stored. Because of this we are missing opportunities to connect people with existing services.

Public Safety and Homelessness

• Tent ban and increase police

Climate and Environment

• Clean energy solutions

Housing Diversity

• Redevelopment in areas with lower land costs that aren’t currently zoned

Budget Stewardship

• While hard to do, would eventually like more tax money to go into a general fund of money which can be used for anything

Housing

• Relax limits on housing occupancy, have more lower cost housing options

Racial Justice and Inclusion

• Translate city communications into Spanish, put people who are part of a minority group on city boards

Homelessness

• Create a welcoming day center and provide supplemental outreach services

Climate

• Invest in social infrastructure, annex CU Boulder South

Climate

• Commit to a pledge to go carbon neutral

Transportation

• Have work from home days so people don’t commute as much

Housing

• Supports bedrooms are for people

Public Safety/Homelessness

• Use faith organizations to help provide resources for homeless people, defund police

Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice

• Make things more affordable, work with social justice organizations

Pro affordable housing

• ‘I authored a middle- income down payment assistance program to make more homes affordable to a wider array of income levels’ - Campaign Website

• Advocates for more low and middle income housing & developments to serve lower income populations

Police and ‘Public Safety’

• Mark Wallach: ‘Reform, don’t defund, police’

• ‘I support bringing  our police department back up to its full complement of officers so that they can better police our city.’ - in reference to homelessness and crime

On Social Justice

•  ‘I also believe that we must promote greater economic justice through creation of a proper minimum wage, protection of our manufactured home communities, and enhanced policies to increase employment opportunities for people of color in City government, and for minority-owned businesses to provide goods and services to the City.’

Social Justice & Inclusion

• Expand training to prevent discriminatory policing, and hold individual officers accountable for discriminatory conduct & publish data on stops, arrests and use of force

• Deploy social workers and other civilian professionals instead of police officers to address social problems and quality-of-life issues

• Partner with major employers to encourage them to diversify local workforces & support minority-owned businesses

Housing

• Streamline and simplify rules making it difficult to build housing affordable for people, including multi-family housing

• Make better use of current housing in Boulder by expanding opportunities for people to share homes and for homeowners to create accessory units 

Homelessness

• Expanded night shelter access and options, including creative solutions like safe parking and safe camping areas 

• Day shelters so that people have somewhere safe and constructive to be when the night shelters are closed

• Transitional housing designed to help people get sober and stay sober       & other social programs

Pro bike and pro public transit for less single-occupant vehicle use

Advocates for affordable housing and development

• Developing in currently unused areas

Homelessness

• Prioritize funding for and expansion of mental health and substance abuse programs. 

• Enforce the camping ban and redirect those experiencing homelessness to the appropriate residential and/or treatment program that meets their unique needs

• Supports efforts to increase funding for social programs on 2022 Ballot

Climate

• Reduce Emissions by 70% by 2030 & become a Net Zero City by 2035

Safety

• ‘the rise in bicycle and car part theft merits more police presence and government advocacy. I support more frequent patrols and prevention initiatives’

‘Let’s increase city outreach to business owners with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion. We must support efforts to diversify applicant pools for affordable commercial spaces. We can also help local businesses with marketing through city and nonprofit partnerships.’