Issues

Platform: Smart Growth with Responsible Financial Stewardship

Fiscal responsibility and transparency are paramount

A Budget Review Committee should be re-established to ask legitimate questions and provide advice on best fiscal practices. This committee should not serve to stop all progress and spending, but help to optimize our solutions.
A safe city is a prosperous city which requires the optimum level of police and fire personnel and equipment to anticipate the needs within a 5-year time horizon.
Solutions for service cost sharing should be considered although geographically limited.

Resident Quality of Life Issues should be considered in concert with development or land use changes

We need better balance to continue practical growth of this city. Residents need to feel they have a better say in the features that may directly impact them without stopping all new projects. Resident Committees must be re-established with clear roles and guidelines.
Large area flooding during typical rainy season must be addressed for the areas of constant flooding during heavy rainstorms.

UEP must continue on schedule with a close review of better financing options

Including Grants and funding from State and Federal level (EPA).
Priority must continue to be given to the residents in the Mid-Hawthorne Aquifer areas of the NW/NE section of the city.

Waterways must become a more prominent feature of this city

Better Tourism opportunities.
New Canal Access to the Gulf of America and development of waterfront entertainment venues (i.e. 7 Islands Development).
Waterways must be considered basic infrastructure just the same as roadways. We have 400 miles of canals which require regular maintenance and development.

Commercial Rateables are of primary importance

We must prioritize BURST (Burnt Store Road District-future land use amendment) and
similar zoning, where possible with low impact, high value rateables.
Continue to position Cape Coral in industries for jobs (i.e. technology, healthcare, light
industry) creating a magnet for working families.
Add a new hospital in NW/NE area of Cape Coral.

Infrastructure development is a necessary growth engine for our city

Community development including expanded roadways, improved traffic safety and flow, the new Cape Coral Bridge to Ft Myers.

Avoid extraordinary projects that do not fit into the existing zoning of a neighborhood

Avoid projects that will become a permanent stain on specific neighborhoods and Cape Coral’s reputation, as a whole (i.e. airports and garbage dumps).
Redraw the Zoning and Land Use Map to create specific Commercial Sub-zones for particular businesses, to the best extent possible, away from single family homes. It’s time to re-look at this again.

Better animal ordinances must be established for the welfare and safety of our pets

This includes lost, runaway and abused animals
Create a microchip chip program that is accessible to those that can’t afford the extra expense

“It takes nothing away from a human to be kind to an animal.” – Joaquin Phoenix

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