Learn about the priorities I am Standing Up for!
I am Standing Up for Mountain View, and that means being compassionate, prepared, transparent, and unafraid to do the hard work. I believe Mountain View can be a city that welcomes everyone, honors our history, while pragmatically planning for our future.
A City Where People Can Stay and Thrive
Mountain View needs housing that help people stay rooted here — renters, families, seniors, mobile home residents, first-time homebuyers, and the workers our community depends on. I support thoughtful housing creation that meets the needs of our community, strong tenant protections, development and preservation of affordable housing, community ownership models, and planning that envisions a complete community with the infrastructure, public safety, services, parks and biodiversity, active transportation routes, and transportation needed to support thriving neighborhoods long into the future.
We need truly affordable housing, and I will work closely with partners to ensure we fund and build it. I will also protect and preserve our existing affordable housing, including through community ownership models, earthquake retrofitting, and funding for sustainability and other safety upgrades.
We must build more housing for first time home buyers, our workers, and others in the “missing middle,” because we need people to be able to call Mountain View their long term home, where they can build their future. One way to achieve this is implementing the long-awaited R3 zoning standards, which will enable us to build stacked flat units, and other diverse housing types.
Our residents are concerned about state mandates, such as SB79. I will work to ensure mandates work for all of us. I will prioritize a local alternative plan covering all SB79 neighborhoods, and help create strong objective standards. Historic properties and naturally affordable housing can, and need to be, preserved
As we upzone neighborhoods, I will ensure resident voices are included, that our objective standards create the best outcome for existing and new residents, and that we work closely with developers to center the community, and our long term needs, creating the housing, but also complete neighborhoods, we want. This includes parks, infrastructure upgrades, and improving public safety and other services.
I will protect our mobile home parks, one of our greatest stocks of affordable housing, that also provide community, including for seniors. I will continue to champion a Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance, and protect our parks from redevelopment.
Homelessness is increasing across the nation, and visibly in Mountain View. I fought for safe parking programs, ensured we received County financial support, and I will advocate for the expansion of safe parking. But, we also need more truly affordable housing, and protections for seniors and women facing domestic violence, the two groups most likely to face homelessness. I have, and will continue, to engage in regional efforts to both prevent homelessness, and to help our homeless residents, and that is key for the long term.
I will always require each development opportunity to take into account the impacts, and ensure each development adds to the livability and sustainability of our city, that each makes Mountain View get closer to our vision for the future, that ties into the plan for a more vital, safe, and sustainable place people truly feel they belong.
SUPPORTING ECONOMIC VITALITY THAT SERVES ALL OF US 
Small businesses are at the heart of what makes Mountain View’s community so special, and we have to support them. I will work to expand our business districts, protect businesses by cutting red tape, and ensuring businesses know Mountain View welcomes them. I also will support the dozens of innovative, emerging businesses that call Mountain View home, helping build sustainable jobs for our future.
I grew up in an entrepreneurial household, and run a small business. Small businesses are the heart of our community, create a sense of place, and provide vital and wanted services, while creating many jobs. That’s why I supported their survival with Appetite for Good during the pandemic. We must remove barriers to their success to ensure they can start and grow effectively, and feel welcomed and supported.
We need retail centers throughout our city, in neighborhoods. The Village at San Antonio is an example of an emerging, successful neighborhood center. We also need to preserve retail, and encourage neighborhood-serving businesses in new developments.
Mountain View is home to dozens of innovative tech companies, drawn here by our long history of innovation. These companies have the potential of creating good jobs for us, including many skilled labor jobs in manufacturing, supporting our tax base, and diversifying our economy. I will work to keep Mountain View a center for innovation, helping remove barriers to being in business, and also work closely with companies to make sure our community shares the positive impacts of their success.
A COMMUNITY READY FOR THE FUTURE
Climate change is already shaping daily life in Mountain View — from hotter streets to higher infrastructure demands. I will push for practical, visible climate action that makes our city safer, healthier, more affordable, and more beautiful now: cleaner buildings, more trees and shade, biodiversity-supporting landscapes, more parks and preserved open space, water resilience, and safer ways to walk, bike, and get around town.
I have worked and volunteered in climate protection measures my entire life. That work continues now on the board of Carbon Free Mountain View and on the Parks and Recreation Commission. I am deeply committed to working to mitigate and to adapt to climate change, and make our city more sustainable, safe, and livable.
I worked on the Parks Strategic Plan and the Biodiversity and Urban Forest plan on the PRC. I will work to ensure this work is turned into actionable objectives, and that we meet them, which will make Mountain View greener, cooler, more resilient, and more livable. As we densify, parks and open space become all the more important, and we must have more equitable parkland and recreation available to all residents.
We have an ambitious tree planting goal, which we need to meet. Trees are critical in the climate change fight, and also provide mitigating shade in parks, along bike routes, and sidewalks.
I will push Mountain View to be carbon neutral by 2040, as well as ending the flow of natural gas, making our city more affordable and safer.
We have two free shuttle services that provide equitable transportation for workers, families, students, and seniors. We need to continue to expand routes and frequencies of these services.
Biking and pedestrian safety concerns inhibit our ability to get more people out of cars. We know how to build safer streets, including safe routes to school; it is time to implement these programs.
I will push for equitable and obtainable electrification and clean energy solutions, such as balcony solar and more public EV charging.
I will create policies that eliminate the use of toxic chemicals in our landscaping, and incentivize greener, safer building materials.
A City That Works for You
The Mountain View community should have a meaningful voice in decisions, understand actions that will impact their lives, and feel empowered to make a difference. I’ll work for clearer information, more transparent processes, earlier outreach, stronger support for neighborhoods and volunteers, and better ways for residents to help shape the future of our city, and also make sure you have the information, and the voice, you deserve.
In the election process, we focus heavily on policy discussions, and often talk about who is “pro” or “against” policies in certain areas. We don’t often talk about how candidates will govern, how they will represent the community, or how they will make decisions on new issues that inevitably emerge, or in unexpected situations, like a pandemic, a city-wide emergency, or an economic downturn.
I will make sure our community is heard first, not last, when we are gathering community input in any decision or policy creation.
I will always center the community’s voice in my decision making.
I will always be available and accessible to residents, holding office hours and hosting neighborhood meetings.
I will advocate for stronger advisory bodies, increased support for volunteers, stronger and more supported neighborhood associations, and clearer and easier to find information that the community needs, from permitting to zoning to policy.
Ready to Join our Community?
