On Nov. 8, Kristi Becker and Kristin Brinner are operating for the Solana Seashore Metropolis Council District 2 seat. The district’s borders embody I-5 to the east, Nardo Avenue to the south, Lomas Santa Fe to the north and extends west to the ocean. In alphabetical order, see their bio data and responses to 4 questions beneath.
Title: Kristi Becker
Kristi Becker
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Occupation: Solana Seashore Metropolis Councilmember; retired lawyer; small enterprise proprietor
Training: Bachelor of Arts, Regulation and Society, College of California, Santa Barbara
Juris Physician, College of California, Davis, College of Regulation.
Neighborhood Service: Solana Seashore Metropolis Councilmember 2018-present
Regional Board Expertise: Clear Vitality Alliance, SANDAG Shoreline Preservation Working Group, League of California Cities, San Elijo JPA, LAFCO
Metropolis Commissioner: Local weather Motion Fee; Parks & Recreation Fee
1. What are the most important points going through the town and the way would you handle them?
Our Metropolis faces vital strain from the State to considerably improve growth and density in our neighborhoods, based mostly on the false assumption elevated density will lead to decrease housing costs. They push for increased density though the Tax Assessor exhibits Solana Seashore already has among the many highest housing density within the County (53% multi-family housing). Alarmingly, they search to finish public evaluation of growth and elimination of parking and examine safety. I assist native management over growth. As we welcome new residents, a considerate deliberate method is important to respect and improve the livability of our Metropolis ensuring infill progress matches our neighborhood, unfavourable impacts are minimized, and reasonably priced housing is constructed.
Environmental sustainability can be essential. As Board Chair of the Clear Vitality Alliance (impartial electrical energy supplier) and a member of our Local weather Motion Fee, I’ve distinctive expertise and {qualifications} to make sure CEA is efficiently managed.
2. What’s your place on housing coverage, similar to implementation of the housing component and navigating new state housing payments which have potential so as to add density in Solana Seashore?
I strongly assist lifelike and sensible efforts to develop reasonably priced housing in Solana Seashore. Council zoned for all assigned housing models required by our Housing Ingredient, finding them alongside industrial/transit corridors. I voted to remove the choice for builders to pay a charge in lieu of offering reasonably priced models so the models can be constructed. I supported designation of our Metropolis Corridor property and a metropolis owned car parking zone as websites for building of reasonably priced housing (plus a Metropolis contribution of $2 million).
Not too long ago enacted State housing payments that add density like Senate Invoice 9 (SB 9) sadly don’t handle “affordability.” Really, growing density will increase land and housing costs. Our Council enacted Ordinance 521 in a real and lifelike effort to make housing extra reasonably priced and adjust to the necessities of SB 9.
I’ll proceed to push for laws that gives cash to make constructing reasonably priced models financially possible.
3. Are there any infrastructure tasks you suppose are particularly vital for the town to prioritize?
Practice Station Redevelopment: The Practice Station is owned by North County Transit District. Redevelopment ought to present housing, eating places and companies that contribute to the vibrancy of the Cedros Avenue enterprise space. How this website is developed could have vital unfavourable or optimistic impacts on Cedros companies and close by neighborhoods, together with cut-through site visitors and parking issues. I’ll work to verify any venture is suitable with the size and eclectic architectural character of the Cedros Avenue design district and there’s sufficient parking.
Lomas Santa Fe Drive Hall Undertaking: Since I used to be elected to Council, now we have been working to reinforce the Lomas Santa Fe Drive hall, which runs from Freeway 101 to the jap boundary of the Metropolis. The purpose is to make this whole West/East hall safer for strolling, biking and driving. I’ll work to search out funding for this vital venture.
4. How would you grade the town’s response to the local weather disaster, and the way a lot work nonetheless must be carried out to handle rising sea degree and different dangers?
Solana Seashore is a frontrunner on environmental points. Throughout my time period on Metropolis Council, we banned single-use plastics, required constructing electrification, electrical car charging and battery storage infrastructure in all new building and substantial remodels, and required photo voltaic electrical programs on industrial buildings.
One of the crucial impactful environmental actions we achieved to cut back greenhouse fuel emissions was establishing the primary impartial neighborhood power provider within the County known as Clear Vitality Alliance (CEA). CEA competes with SDG&E so residents and companies should purchase clear renewable electrical energy, costs keep aggressive and income keep native. Solana Seashore already surpassed our 2035 greenhouse fuel discount objectives.
Defending our seashores and addressing sea degree rise is a prime precedence for me. We have now secured Federal funding for seaside sand replenishment over the subsequent 50 years! As a member of SANDAG’s Shoreline Preservation Working Group, I’m pursuing a regional method to seaside preservation.
Title: Kristin Brinner
Occupation: Lead Software program Engineer
Training: PhD, Natural Chemistry, College of California, Berkeley; BA, Chemistry, Haverford Faculty
Neighborhood Service:
—Co-Lead, Seashore Preservation Committee, San Diego Chapter of Surfrider Basis, 2014-present
—Member, Sea Stage Rise Technical Advisory Committee, Metropolis of Del Mar, 2015-2018
1. What are the most important points going through the town and the way would you handle them?
(1) Financial Growth: I’ll encourage eating places and native companies to return to the town, and struggle to maintain current companies right here, by guaranteeing a pleasant surroundings. It will assist metropolis enhancements by offering important tax income.
(2) Environmental Management: I’ll work with the Local weather Motion Fee to replace and implement the Local weather Motion Plan. I’ll pursue limiting single-use plastics which can be nonetheless allowed, and implement the town’s 2019 plastics ordinance that has languished. I’ll recruit residents and companies to the 100% renewable power program on the Clear Vitality Alliance.
(3) Bike/Stroll Security: I’ll pursue cost-effective options to make it safer for our youngsters to stroll/bike to high school, whereas working in the long run to safe funding for main enhancements to transportation corridors.
(4) Transparency and Accountability: I’ll open communications between the town and its residents, and guarantee selections are made with strong neighborhood enter.
2. What’s your place on housing coverage, similar to implementation of the housing component and navigating new state housing payments which have potential so as to add density in Solana Seashore?
The town has failed to handle the essential want for housing. The town will proceed to be topic to state authority over its housing growth till the town updates its insurance policies to point out it may well meet state-imposed necessities. We’re already seeing the state transfer aggressively, with a flurry of housing payments aimed toward easing the event of housing, and all written to lower the quantity of native management a metropolis can train over housing tasks. To regain native management, I’ll (1) pursue state and federal funding alternatives to handle the state’s housing necessities; (2) create revolutionary options to handle the housing disaster; and (3) champion affordable housing insurance policies that respect the neighborhood’s current residential growth tips. Offering housing for individuals like academics or firefighters enriches our neighborhood by guaranteeing now we have a various inhabitants.
3. Are there any infrastructure tasks you suppose are particularly vital for the town to prioritize?
(1) Enhance bike/stroll infrastructure: In 2015 the town recognized essential areas of enchancment for bike/stroll infrastructure. I can be a frontrunner in pursuing funding for main enhancements to sidewalks and bike routes on vital transportation corridors similar to Lomas Santa Fe and Stevens Ave. I may also advocate for site visitors calming of our residential streets.
(2) Develop La Colonia Neighborhood Park: The town has owned an unimproved lot in La Colonia for 4 years. I’ll work carefully with the neighborhood to find out the most effective use of the property. The residents would possibly think about a neighborhood backyard, parking options, or leisure discipline house.
(3) Determine alternatives for the practice station property: The town ought to collaborate with NCTD and the neighborhood to find out choices to enhance the car parking zone and surrounding property on the practice station. I intend to be engaged on this collaboration to offer vibrant neighborhood areas.
4. How would you grade the town’s response to the local weather disaster, and the way a lot work nonetheless must be carried out to handle rising sea degree and different dangers?
I don’t imagine our metropolis is doing sufficient to reply to the local weather disaster. I’ve been endorsed by all the metropolis’s former and present Local weather Motion Fee chairs because the candidate who will handle this problem. We should enhance the town’s Local weather Motion Plan by addressing local weather fairness and prioritizing the event of funding and implementation plans. At present, the town just isn’t on monitor to satisfy the Plan’s greenhouse fuel discount objectives or implement lots of its adaptation tips. We should always permit our metropolis’s Local weather Motion Fee to broaden its scope and we should always respect its findings. The town has additionally spent a decade making an attempt to finish its Native Coastal Program. With out this doc the town continues to cede native management over coastal growth to the Coastal Fee. This course of have to be accomplished, and the Native Coastal Program then ought to be up to date to handle sea degree rise.
