My Priorities
This platform is a starting point, not a closed document. I will continue developing it through conversations with Ward 11 residents, local businesses, community groups, and people who use Ward 11 every day.
The goal is clear: make practical changes based on local experience, while being open about who is responsible, how much it will cost, how long it will take, and what compromises may be needed.
- Protect existing rental housing and press for stronger enforcement of property standards and tenant protections.
- Support more housing choices, including missing-middle, affordable, nonprofit, and co-operative housing.
- Direct growth toward appropriate locations near transit and services while protecting neighbourhood character and quality of life.
- Push the City to use its land, funding, planning tools, and partnerships to create housing that remains affordable over time.
- Make information about housing programs, tenant supports, and financial assistance easier to find and understand.
- Press for routine maintenance that is visible and reliable, not only complaint-driven blitzes.
- Track recurring problem locations on sidewalks, in parks, laneways, transit stops, and main streets.
- Coordinate more effectively with City divisions, the TTC, BIAs, property owners, agencies, and community partners.
- Support public spaces that work for older adults, residents with disabilities, families, students, workers, visitors, and people in vulnerable situations.
- Support proportionate enforcement where behaviour makes public space unsafe or inaccessible, while treating vulnerable residents with dignity.
- Advocate for safer intersections, crossings, sidewalks, bike routes, and construction detours.
- Press for more consistent attention to TTC cleanliness, safety, accessibility, and the station-level experience.
- Support better enforcement and deterrence for dangerous driving, excessive vehicle noise, illegal parking, blocked sidewalks, and other behaviour that makes streets less safe.
- Use collision data, resident experience, accessibility needs, and site conditions to identify where changes are most urgent.
- Work toward a ward where people can move through daily life with less friction and less fear.
- Maintain a clearer public map or inventory of major construction and development activity affecting Ward 11.
- Push for safer pedestrian routing, accessibility, signage, noise management, and timely construction-impact communication.
- Give serious attention to heritage, local character, shadow, wind, public realm, loading, traffic, waste, and street-level impacts.
- Challenge a planning culture that treats consultation as a checkbox rather than a source of useful local knowledge.
- Explain decisions and trade-offs after major votes so residents can see what changed, what did not, and why.
- Publish plain-language explanations of major local decisions, including planning, construction, traffic, shelters, public-realm changes, and service disruptions.
- Communicate earlier and more clearly, before residents feel that decisions have already been made.
- Create public tracking for important local issues: what was reported, who is responsible, what happens next, and when residents can expect an update.
- Explain what the councillor can deliver directly, what the office can advocate for, and what requires a Council vote, budget decision, or action by another government.
- Publish clear service standards for the councillor’s office and report progress on major local files, even when something is delayed or unresolved.