Listening to all Carmel Citizens
- Preserve the character of Carmel’s residential neighborhoods.
- Invest in infrastructure to keep pace with Carmel’s population growth.
- Hire additional police officers to keep Carmel a safe, family-friendly community.
For more than 7 years, I have attended Homeowner Association (HOA) board and annual meetings, hosted town hall meetings, sent newsletters, and fielded community-wide surveys. My purpose is to listen to the thoughts, ideas, and dreams of Carmel residents and business leaders.
The feedback that I have received has been a consistent concern over Carmel’s rapid excessive growth and increasing density, that is:
- Sacrificing the unique character of Carmel’s family-residential neighborhoods.
- Overloading and stressing Carmel’s existing infrastructure, especially outside of downtown Carmel.
- Spreading Carmel’s police and fire departments too thin, preventing public safety from keeping up with population growth.
My Priorities:
Preserve the character of Carmel’s residential neighborhoods.
I believe we can allow for Carmel’s continued growth without sacrificing the unique character of Carmel neighborhoods and environment. As a City Council member, I’ve sought to accomplish this by:
- Soliciting citizen input by attending HOA and town hall meetings about Carmel’s Comprehensive Plan.
- Advocating on behalf of Carmel citizens for changes to the city’s Comprehensive Plan.
- Advocating for concerned citizens to change or stop proposals that would dramatically increase density and destroy wooded areas adjacent to existing residential family neighborhoods.
Invest in infrastructure to keep pace with Carmel’s population growth.
We must focus on investing in infrastructure outside of downtown Carmel. As a City Council member, I’ve accomplished with by:
- Soliciting input via surveys from citizens living in and near Home Place and other HOAs.
- Advocating for increased funding for projects and paving roads outside of downtown Carmel in 2019 and 2020. When I was not successful, I was the only councilor to vote against the city budget in 2019 and 2020.
- Again, I advocated for increased funding for projects and paving roads outside of downtown Carmel in 2021 and 2022. I succeeded in getting projects and items included in 2021 and 2022 city budgets and in bonds for infrastructure projects in 2021 and 2022.
Hire additional police officers to keep Carmel a safe, family-friendly community.
As crime continues to be an issue south of Carmel, now is the time to hire more police officers. I believe allocating funds to hire more police officers must be a top city budget priority.
- By providing more funding for public safety, we can increase the number of sworn police officers. In addition, I believe we must add another fire station in western Carmel.
