From the Campaign
Thoughts on the issues, updates from the trail, and reflections on St. Helena.
The City Manager was asked to develop a strategy before the Council established its direction. The fundamental question is: who sets the North Star? I believe that responsibility belongs to the City Council.
Read moreOur municipal boundaries may be precise. Our community is not. People experience St. Helena as a place, a network of neighborhoods, businesses, restaurants, cultural institutions, hotels, farms and destinations, not as a line on a map.
Read moreA letter to the editor of the St. Helena Star on fire-access requirements, the Spring Grove project, and what honest government actually looks like.
Read moreA formal letter to Planning Director Leza Mikhail raising questions about the proposed Spring Vineyard project's compliance with the City's two-fire-access-road requirement and General Plan Policy LU5.G protecting Prime Farmland at 1933 Spring Street.
Read moreA formal letter to Planning Director Leza Mikhail requesting clarification on how the City approved the 41-unit Spring Grove subdivision despite apparent conflicts with fire access, hose-reach, flag-lot, and small-lot standards in the Municipal Code.
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