Winning Together

When City Hall and Residents Are Aligned, Scottsdale Wins!

Preserving Character & Charm

  • Working with residents to protect their neighborhoods

  • Enforced the strictest Short Term Rentals laws with continued lobbying for local control

  • Added protections for residential neighborhoods, adopted building codes that conserve water, reduce urban heat, and lower utility bills

  • Added open space and robust landscaping requirements; expanded parking requirements per each development

  • Stopped urbanization of Old Town; lowered heights, added open space and eliminated developer incentives

  • Updated Noise Ordinance in process

  • Upholding trail and path requirements citywide

  • Provided funds for critical infrastructure improvements at WestWorld, which brings in $163.6 million to Arizona’s GDP annually

Championing our Preserve, Parks, and Open Spaces

  • Funded infrastructure and reinvestments for Scottsdale’s oldest parks in the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt

  • Created a thirty-year McDowell Sonoran Preserve maintenance fund

  • Protected the McDowell Sonoran Preserve from inappropriate proposals

  • Began the Rio Verde Wildlife Crossing Feasibility Study

  • Dedicated new parks including two in Old Town

  • Opened a one-of-a-kind Roundhouse Indoor playground and splash pad at McCormick Railroad Park

Watching Your Wallet

  • Reduced taxes, doubled city reserves, AAA bond rated

  • Paid down ballooning police & fire pension liabilities

  • Ended the export of Scottsdale water to unincorporated areas, conserved water citywide

  • Updated contracts to favor taxpayers; protected tax dollars in development negotiations and expanded public benefits

  • Secured grants to replace trees lost in the monsoons

  • Requested internal audits of City parks and facilities to ensure maximum public benefit

  • Established a real-time water meter rebate that will notify residents of water leaks

Safeguarding Scottsdale’s Quality of Life

  • Strengthened building codes for safety and environmental protections

  • Adopted an anti-discrimination ordinance

  • Expanded Equestrian, Pedestrian, and Cycling infrastructure

  • Led the shift to zero-waste events at city facilities

  • Earned National Recognition: Top 10 Safest City in the Nation; Conde Nast’s “one of the best destinations in the world”; “Healthiest City” and “Best Place to Retire”; 43-consecutive years as a Tree City USA, and 51-years “Excellence in Financial Planning”

Protecting Your Vote

  • Overwhelming ballot box wins: 2019 Bonds, General Plan 2035, and Props 490/491

  • Stopped a major revision and weakening of the voter-approved General Plan 2035!