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  • The city of St. Louis’ North and West sides suffered a devastating tornado on May 16, 2025; which caused the most damage our city has seen since 1896. Rebuilding is the top priority, working with the community to ensure they can stay and inform the revitalization of their homes.

    The Community Development Administration (‘CDA’) should be working with the St. Louis Development Corporation (‘SLDC’) on doing just this. The SLDC is now under state statute allowed to enter into public private partnerships, which sets the stage for ‘Green Social Housing’. A model of housing that prioritizes longterm sustainability and affordability by incorporating environmentally friendly design and mixed income units.

  • Vacancy is an issue that effects our entire city, living next to one of these properties can be extremely frustrating. That’s why I care about tackling negligent property owners.

    We must pass legislation to crack down on ‘faceless entities’ these shell companies buying up our land and leaving it to rot.

    Continuing to aggressively pursue problematic vacant properties through the tax sale processes, leveraging fines and fees to force accountability.

    And of course, continued partnership and increased funding for incredible community assets such as Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, a legal non-profit that utilizes litigation to force action on vacant property.

  • The City of St. Louis has a complex history with public safety, and I do support those Officers who decide to serve our city each day. It is important to recognize those facts while also demanding policing reforms.

    I support regaining local control of the city police department, it should have never been returned to State control - a remanent of a civil war era policy implemented as a means of political control.

    We must further support those suffering from mental health issues including substance abuse disorder. The city should be doing so by working to expand alternative dispatch responses, sending trained crisis workers to protect vulnerable members of our community.

  • The city of St. Louis has long deferred capital improvements causing poor quality streets, failing water infrastructure, and various other issues. And this certainly contributes to our declining population. No one wants to live in a city that’s falling apart.

    But it doesn’t have to be that way, we can make these much needed improvements by focusing on root causes.

    One way the city is improving our roads is by holding Utilities accountable. I worked on Ordinance 71943 the ‘Utility Coordination Policy', which adopted more strict restoration requirements on any excavation in the right of way - including by utility providers.

  • Our city was founded in the 1700s, and a lot of things have changed since then. Some things that haven’t changed much are the structures of government that we operate under in the city of St. Louis - our Charter was adopted in 1914!

    The city operates as a both a city and a county, that’s why we have the Collector of Revenue, License Collector, Assessor, Recorder of Deeds, and Treasurer. A number of additional elected officials you have to pay attention to every four years?

    I plan to address systematic issues within the city caused by the diffused nature of our government. And I’m supportive of working with the President of the Board of Aldermen to build a standing Charter Review Committee; a body responsible for researching and compiling reports and recommendations for the Charter Commission every 10 years.

    The Missouri Constitution thanks to a 2002 amendment grants the city of St. Louis broad ‘home rule’ authority over our city and county functions; why not use the authority the citizens of Missouri trusted us to wield?

  • As a proud queer person I promise to remain the strong advocate for equal rights I have been since coming out at the young age of 12.

    Be it fighting to protect our trans brothers and sisters, or fighting to up hold same sex marriage. I promise to fight and stand up for you.

Past policy work

  • This ordinance established a reporting requirement for utility providers to annually provide their long range work plan. This allows the city to plan paving and other capital projects in coordination with planned utility work.

    Additionally, adopted much stricter restoration requirements for when utilities cut up our streets. Drafted and built in coordination with our utility providers, the Streets Department, the Board of Public Service, and constructions experts.

  • A similar policy was adopted by the city in 2017, we think of this as an update. This policy update provides for more tailored guidance on how major capital projects should be designed. The concept of a complete street means it was designed to accommodate every user.

    And updated the ‘Complete Street Committee’ a body of city staff and one (1) citizen member, they review proposed capital projects and make funding recommendations to the capital committee.

  • As a way to help protect renters in the city of St. Louis we worked to establish mold as a citable offense by the Building Division. With a strict penalty for property owners who fail to remove the mold; the loss of their certificate of inspection - which allows their property to be legally occupied - for up to one (1) year.

    This was crafted out of many conversations with Building Division and Health Department officials, members of the Realtors Association of St. Louis, and remediation experts.

  • Ordinance 72181, sponsored by Ald. Schweitzer established zoning regulations for Data Centers in the City of St. Louis. Including site design requirements, distance requirements from sensitive uses (schools, parks, transit centers, etc.), certain renewable energy, and noise pollution mitigation requirements.

    Working on this legislation I was responsible for the incorporation of feedback and preparation of amendments. As well as being involved in negotiating the applicability requirements to existing data centers.