County Council Members need to make thoughtful and strategic development decisions. Poor planning wastes our tax dollars and hurts our quality of life.

• Protect parks, open spaces, and the environment.

• Ensure that new development is approved only if roads, traffic, utilities, and natural resources can handle it. 

• Ensure that development projects are consistent with community character. This is often not the case, as with the proposed McDonald’s on Limestone Road, carwash in Hockessin, or developments on Possum Park Road. 

• Prioritize local businesses over billion-dollar corporations. When small businesses thrive, profits stay in Delaware and Delawareans benefit.

• Protect the aquifer that supplies water to Hockessin, Pike Creek, and beyond. Overdevelopment threatens this aquifer, which was listed as a National Priority by the EPA. We need independent experts to monitor the water supply and ensure that any development above the aquifer is done responsibly.

• End exemptions that allow developers to avoid county regulations. See this article for one example of how I successfully fought alongside my community to end one such exemption.

Our government should be accountable to us, not to real estate developers and corporations. 

• I will host monthly meetings with constituents and send monthly email newsletters, which our district hasn’t had in years.

• Require developers to hold a public meeting in our district when they submit new plans — and to publicize such meetings widely. Yellow signs on the side of the road are not enough.

• Ban campaign donations from developers who have pending land use applications for at least the 90-day period before an election. As public servants, county council members should be focused on serving their constituents, not developers.

Local government needs to do its part to fix the affordability crisis in Delaware.

• Regulate the construction of data centers that will use massive amounts of electricity and drive up our electric bills. Data centers are coming to Delaware because we are the only state that has no sales tax and no business personal property tax, which will save these corporations billions of dollars over time. Protect our families and our future by requiring data centers to meet the highest standards for energy efficiency, water efficiency, and noise pollution.
  

• Work with state officials to hold Delmarva accountable, address our energy crisis, and end Delmarva’s unsustainable rate increases. Invest in renewable energy generation and storage on County buildings, parking lots, and waste water facilities.
  

• Use the County code to expand the housing supply and reduce housing prices. For example, incentivize developers to build affordable, walkable communities instead of sprawl by requiring them to pay for necessary infrastructure upgrades.

Strengthen Public Services and Public Safety


• Increase funding for fire departments and emergency services.  

• Keep our incredible libraries funded, staffed, and maintained. 

• Expand the pilot programs conducted with ChristianaCare that send mental health workers, not just police, as first responders to mental health crises.

Civil Rights, Human Rights, and Workers’ Rights

• Use my position to ensure that all residents of our district feel safe and included in our communities regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. 

• Use County budget oversight to ensure that New Castle County police use their resources to focus on local safety priorities, not federal ICE operations. 

• Use project labor agreements to ensure that infrastructure and development projects receiving County dollars promote fair compensation and safe working conditions. County contracting must balance four priorities: quality construction, reasonable cost, supporting local union members, and creating opportunities for local small businesses.