As your Councilwoman, I will continue to work for:
Smart Growth and Equitable Development
Smart Growth and Equitable Development
- Focus on strategic planning and funding for essential infrastructure needs.
- Identification of good bones development opportunities.
- Be inclusive of retired, single or family communities that are diversified and provide meaningful activities for all our citizens that include walk-ability, access to shopping, dining, provide work opportunities and access our parks and trail system.
- Be vigil towards and address weaknesses and strengths in our system to prepare as our City changes and grows.
- Continue to Facilitate and promote value based land use systems that balances a good business model, maintains good neighborhood lifestyle design and protects property values.
- Seek solutions to find an equitable taxation system , be vigilant towards debt service and continue to limit waste.
- Continue to limit and find good alternates to costly developer incentives and abatements.
- Research, audit, validate matters pertaining to City budget , financial planning, funding options, staffing, public safety and spending practices.
- Continue to identify and Improve City visibility , accessibility , and communication needs as our City grows.
- Continue to work with the City on a way to provide the line by line annual draft budget online so it is accessible to citizens for their understanding and feedback during public hearings.
My ongoing work for Mansfield and our Citizens
As your Zoning Commissioner-
As a Member of the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee-
As a Member of the Construction Codes Board of Adjustments and Appeals-
As a Member of Mansfield Tree Board-
Fiscally Responsible and limit waste
While City Council's role is to make key decisions for the community’s standard of living… it is imperative that we include what local residents need and want, what they are willing and able to pay for, and what services they can expect to receive for their tax dollars.
As your Zoning Commissioner-
- I invested over 19 hours in continuing education that include courses sponsored by NCTCOG taught by Attorneys, Terrance Welch &Robert Brown, for the basics of Planning and Zoning in Texas; Took several hrs continuing education through American Planning Association to better understand city analytics, financial health and the economy.
- I worked with other commissioners, staff and council as a team to research, scrutinize and discuss zoning applications that come before us to push quality construction, look at safety concerns, provide acceptable density; accurate site plans and projects that are good bones development to compliment and sustain our growing community.
- Mansfield is about 73% developed. Over the last several years, I have worked with staff and council to update the zoning ordinances to reflect a higher quality of design . I worked with staff for updating the zoning map to accurately reflect our landuse currently in place, our percentages of development and what we have left to develop. This design will provide data to accurately reflect what has been developed , identify our opportunities and guide us in making good informed decisions as Mansfield develops out.
- Our Land Use Plan hasn't been updated in years. It is on target for revision, updating and will serve as a good foundation for zoning, subdivision regulations, guide good decision making about growth , development, and landuse , while preserving our history and natural resources.
As a Member of the Capital Improvement Advisory Committee-
- I worked with other members of this committee and staff to question , scrub or update our water, sewage and roads related impact fees to make sure we are getting sufficient dollars from new development that will pay for necessary infrastructure needs and related safety services. These fees are reviewed every 6 months for efficiencies.
As a Member of the Construction Codes Board of Adjustments and Appeals-
- I was there at this Board's inception.
- During my tenure, I worked with other board members to set guidelines for the Mansfield Construction Codes Board. This Board set standards to maintain our property values , protect the safety and welfare of our citizens through enforcement of applicable codes related to the upkeep and design of property , buildings and other structures within our City.
As a Member of Mansfield Tree Board-
- I worked to set good policy with preserving our trees in Mansfield
Fiscally Responsible and limit waste
While City Council's role is to make key decisions for the community’s standard of living… it is imperative that we include what local residents need and want, what they are willing and able to pay for, and what services they can expect to receive for their tax dollars.
- The City continues to grow and we have worked to bring retail, commercial and industrial to this area. There has been much talk about homestead exemptions or providing other means of funding such as exploring a sales tax redistribution. I have participated in some of these talks and proposals. I will make sure these talks continue as City staff , boards, commissions and council work together to find that solution.
- Of the functions performed by City Council, budgeting is the most important focus to maintain a fiscally responsible vision of growth and prosperity for our community. This means constantly re-evaluating our debt service and balancing costs with planning out for the essential longterm needs such as roads, bridges and equipment ... infrastructure.
- Use of higher developer impact fees, where we are able, to offset the costs of needed infrastructure and services (water, sewage, police, fire).
- Much has been done to streamline many of the City's operations that reduces waste such as printing and copying paper. Using emails with documents that can be received and read on IPads and computers at meetings. Updating the Website to include information and accessibility to documents and publications rather than using the cost of postage. We still have opportunity and need to continue this effort by exploring the use of consolidating staff meetings, perhaps reduce drive time by having more virtual meetings that can be done from afar.
- We still need to fine tune our website for easier navigation to documents, provide more accessible documents to include line by line draft budget info during public hearings and provide for more citizen feedback surveys to provide useful input to various city depts.
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