Quality of Life is the core of what our campaign is about, and nothing affects quality of life like traffic. Throughout District 5 residents are stuck in traffic, and it is getting worse.  SANDAG is the agency in charge of transportation planning, and you can judge for yourself the results under SANDAG Transportation Chair Jim Desmond. There are other options besides widening freeways, which get clogged the minute the construction is finally over.  It starts with placing new housing where it belongs, and includes new approaches for alternate transportation solutions. Find out about a fundamentally approach and vision for San Diego from a forward-looking candidate.

This is the one galvanizing issue that led me to ultimately make the sacrifices necessary to enter this campaign, after witnessing first hand the devastation wrought by fire in our community.  We need to avoid placing new housing in the Wildland-Urban Interface, insert fire back into the County charter, and mandate full evacuation modeling from any new development prior to granting approval.