Neighborhood Preservation and Community Development
Today, our city's popularity is like a surging tide - powerful, inevitable and, with proper planning, carrying the potential to raise all boats. But too often, we have failed to plan, instead being drawn into ad hoc development battles that create a no-win situation:
Communities fight a too-often losing battle defined by others; developers face a large measure of unpredictability which discourages moderation; the city ends up growing with little rhyme or reason, built though a process almost wholly divorced from comprehensive goals.
That's why Daniel proposes defining new projects around five criteria - contextuality with neighborhood character, affordability, community input, public use, and environmental sustainability. Daniel will fight to create a responsive, transparent and predictable process with real legislative teeth that brings residents, community leaders, elected representatives and others together to define each community's priorities around these principles.
With a shared vision of the city's growth, Daniel knows that it is possible to build stronger communities, instead of building despite our communities.