Our Platform

Real Accountability, Real Transparency

• Smart density near downtown. Most of us moved to Norcross because we fell in love with the downtown and the small town feel — and I want it to stay that way! Both for the neighbors who've been here for decades and the ones who just arrived. And renters are part of what makes this city work, and a healthy mix of housing includes apartments. But right now the mix is out of balance: Norcross's owner-to-renter ratio is already unhealthy and below state and federal averages, and this year's density legislation tips it further — almost 700 new apartments on Holcomb Bridge, with an insufficient parking plan and no matching single-family development. Traffic and parking are already strained, and no one has even broken ground yet. I'll push for smart levels of density — more homeownership options, including townhomes and low-maintenance homes for empty nesters looking to downsize without leaving the neighborhood — and work with council to revisit the decisions that got us here.
• More owner-occupied homes. Most of us want more owner-occupied homes built in the space we have left. We know this because we did a citizen survey in 2025 (see below). The current council is split on this, and my research shows it's administratively easier to build rental units in Norcross than single-family homes — we need to change that. Renting is often the right choice, especially for people just starting out — but everyone deserves a real path to ownership if they want one, and today that path is narrower here than it should be. A recent study from Habitat shows why that matters: homeowners build roughly 400% more net wealth than renters with similar demographics, their kids are more likely to graduate high school and college, and homeowners are more likely to vote locally and get involved in their community. See the research.

  Norcross Citizen Survey Results

• Modernize Council Member Voting. Citizens deserve to know who voted for what measures during each meeting. I will direct city staff to build a simple table on the city website showing exactly how each member voted on every issue, with a link to the agenda items, published as soon as administratively possible after each council meeting. In addition, there are several councils around the nation that use an electronic voting board that shows in real time how members voted that I will consider as well.
• Enhance meeting efficiency. Midway through my first term, God unexpectedly gave us a baby girl. I suddenly found myself sleep-deprived and time-constrained. So I worked with council to modernize the meeting cadence from "the way we'd always done it" to a cadence that made more sense for everyone and we collapsed two monthly meetings into one (for a total of 2/month). While efficiency was a personal benefit, this also bolstered transparency, since the public couldn't realistically attend all 3. The citizens deserve meetings that run as efficiently as possible, allowing them to hear (and be heard!) on the agenda items they care about most, instead of sitting through long council-member debates on issues already hashed out in work sessions. Citizens currently get 3 minutes to speak on issues that matter to them. In that same spirit of fairness, I'll introduce a measure holding council member discussion to that same 3-minute standard, so debate time is shared more evenly between council and the public.
• Streamline open records. As a citizen, this is your most powerful accountability tool, and we need to modernize and streamline it. Today, it is difficult to track your own prior requests and impossible to track what others have requested. If elected, I will direct city staff to modernize this platform to minimize cost to citizens and maximize transparency and accountability.
• Term limits. Norcross should look into term limits for City Council and Mayoral seats, and I will work with council to introduce a measure to investigate this. Elections matter, and voters always have the final say — but incumbency comes with real advantages that make those elections less competitive over time. I don't think running for office was ever meant to become a career, and term limits keep fresh perspectives coming through city hall.

Fiscal Matters

• More patrol cars, fewer automated speed traps. Did you know the city has taken in over $20M in fines since installing the school zone cameras? Twenty million. The laws surrounding these cameras are written to maximize fines by confusing drivers. We're going to unplug those cameras — they were never about safety. Drivers slow down when they see blue lights, not cameras.
• A real budget, and real discipline. Government projects almost always come in over budget — and Norcross does this too. Every overrun costs residents twice: once in taxes, and again in the loss of alternate projects that could have been funded instead. I'll push for the same discipline with public money that we all have to practice at our own kitchen tables: clear budgets, published assumptions, and consequences when a project blows past them.
• Cut facility rental fees for residents. We have a lot of great options for venues and some beautiful parks around the city. The problem is that you pay the same amount to rent one of those that someone outside of Norcross pays. That's not right — we live here and our taxes fund those spaces, and I believe residents deserve a 50% cut in facility rental fees. If elected, I will introduce that measure.
• Most business-friendly city in metro Atlanta. Norcross should be known as the most business-friendly city in metro Atlanta — maybe in all of Georgia. That means welcoming quality restaurants and bespoke retail that make a downtown a worthy destination - not just any development that comes knocking. We need to untangle the maze of city process and procedure and make city hall a one-stop shop for opening a business here — especially for small local immigrant-owned businesses that give Norcross its character.

A Norcross for Norcross Residents

• They voted for developers — I will vote for you. If elected, we will all be working together — long-time residents and newest neighbors alike — to make growth decisions that work for citizens, not what just works best for developers. No more "explosive growth" just because Duluth or Suwanee are doing it. I need to know how a specific project actually improves life for the people already living here before we entertain it.
• A downtown worth visiting. I am fully onboard to continue the efforts of council with walkable restaurants and shops, good sidewalks and I'd like to explore enhancing bike access. Our parks are top-notch but some are unknown to citizens so we need to highlight all that Norcross has to offer. For these reasons and more, young professionals are choosing Norcross as a destination instead of just passing through on their way somewhere else.
• Take our schools back. The short version: GCPS's budget has grown nearly 50% in four years while SAT scores have fallen every year since Wilbanks was forced out in 2021. I want Norcross to have more direct control over its own schools. Even if you don't have kids in the system, school quality shapes home values and this city's reputation for everyone who lives here. Imagine "Norcross City Schools" on the side of buses around town. We pay extremely inflated Gwinnett County property taxes for a system we have no direct say in running. GCPS's budget has ballooned from $2.4 billion to $3.43 billion in just four years — divide that by their roughly 182,000 students, and it works out to nearly $19,000 a child. Georgia's independent city school districts (Decatur, Buford, Marietta, and others) consistently rank among the best in the state, with systems that outperform state and national averages. But state law has blocked any new city from forming its own school system since 1945, after consolidating school districts statewide. The counterargument is that letting cities break away could drain resources from the county. Look at the graph below: GCPS's SAT scores peaked in 2021 and have fallen every year since — well before GCPS started requiring every student to take the SAT in 2024, which explains part of that year's especially sharp drop. But scores kept falling in 2025 too, a full year after that change. The whole time, the budget just kept climbing. Four straight years of scores heading one direction while spending heads the other. More money hasn't fixed the problem, so a smaller, more focused GCPS — with fewer schools to spread itself across — might actually be the thing that helps them turn it around. Norcross isn't the first city to want this — a Dunwoody legislator introduced a constitutional amendment to let any Georgia city do this, and it would have applied to newer cities across the state, from Johns Creek and Sandy Springs to Brookhaven and Peachtree Corners. It never passed. Rather than going it alone, I'll build a coalition with Dunwoody and other Georgia cities in the same position, working toward a comprehensive approach — one that gives Norcross families local control over their schools while being honest about, and addressing, the impact on Gwinnett County Schools.

GCPS's budget has climbed sharply since 2022 while SAT scores have fallen.

Some Small Things

• Yes — we're going to fix that annoying pothole next to Dominick's! 🙂 I Promise!
• Based on the litter I see when walking, we clearly need more trash cans! We can start with putting one near every public bench, city-wide. Let me know the locations you think would help!
• For some reason, we stopped putting American flags on the telephone poles of Holcomb Bridge Rd. Let's honor our veterans and first responders by resurrecting this tradition!
• What can we add to this list together? Let me know.