My top priority for Otonabee Ward is making our neighbourhoods safer, better connected and easier to get around.
That starts with the basics: roads that are properly maintained, continuous sidewalks, safer crossings, reliable transit, and better cycling connections. I want residents to have practical choices in how they get around, while making sure the infrastructure people already depend on is maintained before small problems become expensive ones.
During my term, I would push for clearer neighbourhood infrastructure priorities based on condition, safety and need, and better coordination when work is being done. When we're already rebuilding a road, that's the time to look at the sidewalks, crossings, drainage, accessibility and other improvements around it rather than coming back repeatedly to fix each piece separately.
Housing affordability is my biggest citywide priority. Peterborough needs more homes at more price points, but that doesn't just mean more suburbs. We can add housing without continually sprawling outward.
I support more apartments, townhomes, duplexes, and other forms of gentle infill where existing infrastructure can support them, alongside stronger investment in community housing, supportive housing, and deeply affordable housing. The City can also make better use of municipally owned land, cut unnecessary delays in approvals, and work more closely with non-profits, co-operatives and other levels of government.
The test should be simple: are more people able to find a home they can afford and stay in it? If, four years from now, more people can answer “yes,” then we'll have made real progress.
I’m a Peterborough small-business owner, digital project manager, and Trent University graduate. Much of my professional work involves taking complicated projects, bringing different people together, and turning ambitious plans into something that actually works.
I was a founding board member of Volunteer Peterborough, which gave me the opportunity to work with and hear from non-profits, volunteers, and community organizations across the city. I’m also part of the Basic Income Peterborough Network, where I’ve spent a lot of time listening to people with lived experience of poverty and financial insecurity. Those conversations have helped me keep the human consequences of policy decisions in view alongside the budgets and spreadsheets.
That combination of experiences has made me very focused on practical questions: What problem are we actually trying to solve? What will it cost? Who needs to be involved? What could go wrong? And how will we know whether it worked?
That’s the approach I would bring to Council. I don’t expect to have every answer, but I will do the homework, ask difficult questions, explain my decisions clearly, listen when residents disagree with me, and follow up after the vote instead of treating the meeting as the end of the job.