Issues & Policies

My campaign is built around a simple idea: East Bethel should decide what it wants to become before growth pressure, infrastructure requests, or individual projects make those decisions for us. This page is the policy map for that governing program.

Growth, Land Use & Rural Character

• Growth & Development — planned, staged growth rather than scattered suburbanization.
• Rural Character — preserving the land-use pattern and natural features that make East Bethel distinct.
• Housing & Rural Living — more housing choices in planned growth areas while keeping rural areas low-density.
• Mixed Use Area Vision — a framework for higher-quality growth in strategic nodes.
• Master Planned Communities — objective standards for coordinated development.

Infrastructure & Economic Development

• Infrastructure & Highway 65 — utilities and transportation should follow the adopted growth plan.
• 2050 Comprehensive Plan Priorities — the long-range framework connecting land use, housing, infrastructure, and economic development.

Taxes, Contracts & Public Safety

• Taxes & Spending — understand what drives costs before setting arbitrary tax promises.
• Financial & Contract Review — establish a baseline and tie major recurring costs to measurable outcomes.
• Public Safety — define East Bethel’s priorities and evaluate contracted law-enforcement service against them.

Essential City Services

Essential City Services covers fire and emergency response, roads, parks and trails, broadband, aging residents, and the capacity of city staff to execute Council priorities.

From Policy to Action

• How I Will Govern — coalition-building, Council decision-making, sequencing, and accountability.
• First 100 Days — the initial work plan for establishing direction and baselines.
• Day One Rural Preservation Motions — the specific motions I intend to place before the Council.
• East Bethel 2035 — what success should look like ten years from now.

Vision tells us where we are going. Policy defines the rules. The first 100 days establish the sequence. Council action turns the plan into reality.