Ideas for Our Future

Finalize and implement the new parking and traffic plan already underway. Build more Municipal parking and do a better job communicating with our residents regarding street closures, detours and construction delays.

Continue expanding opportunities for more affordable housing and home ownership. I was instrumental in adding new affordable condominiums incentivized by the IDA to enable our residents to own their own homes, building equity and generational wealth.

Create a fund to rehabilitate the hundreds of older affordable units that already exist by incentivizing landlords of multi-family buildings to repair and modernize their units.

Use IDA funds to increase and bolster the first time homeowner's program.

Create grant programs to help jump start new small businesses and minority and women owned businesses. Use the CLD and BID along with tax incentive programs working with landlords to subsidize rents and buildout costs.

Build pocket parks on vacant parcels in the downtown for our families to enjoy and redesign Ruby Dee Park at Library Green to make it more user and family friendly.

We must make certain that everyone, especially our existing residents, benefit from the tax revenue supplied by the development process. I am in favor of using development funds for small business grants and community events.

The LINC will provide safe and easy connections from the Lincoln Avenue corridor to downtown New Rochelle while providing a new open space amenity to the city.

Our new Art Center will be the home for strong community arts programs and events of all kinds: music, video, theatre, dance, spoken word and master classes. Until that opens provide professional concerts every week on Library Green from May through September.