College Station City Council Place 5
The City of College Station operates under a council-manager form of government. The city council is composed of the mayor and six council members elected at large. The mayor is the council s presiding officer and is recognized as the head of the city government for ceremonial purposes. The mayor is entitled to vote on all matters under consideration by the council.The city council has the power to:appoint the city manager,adopt the budget, authorize the issuance of bondsname members of commissions and boards.The city council also establishes policies regarding:ZoningParksmaster greenway plandevelopment of yearly strategic issues.
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Bob Yancy
(NON)
DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS: If you could change one thing in the city’s development regulations, what would it be and why?
AFFORDABLE HOUSING: What will you do to help address the issues of affordable housing for everyone in the community?
TRAFFIC CONCERNS: What can be done to mitigate or change the traffic concerns in College Station?
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We have changed a considerable amount to protect neighborhood integrity while allowing for higher density housing, more student housing, lessening the instances of students leaving town with a criminal record for occupancy violations, and more. I believe our new focus should be a streamlined and less expensive development and building process to help ensure more housing supply. This could help to alleviate some of the upward price pressure in our housing market. Each additional fee and fee increase we pass exacerbates housing costs and incentivizes housing projects outside of our city. This in turn strains city resources. I advocate for streamlined, less expensive building processes wherever possible.
Housing is too expensive because the population growth of students, our workforce and retirees is outpacing housing supply. I would lower the regulatory and fee burdens to spur more development, while leveraging our CDBG programs to assist lower income residents. Our workforce housing shortage is already in an early crisis stage. Without council action on multiple fronts, young families struggling to get by, workers, the elderly and all but the affluent will increasingly be forced to look elsewhere for housing. This is already happening and will only increase in severity if we do not act. We also must call upon my beloved Alma mater, Texas A&M, to build more student housing and/or incentivize student housing construction.
A majority of the capital improvement projects in this year’s city budget are traffic and roadway related. The bypass is about to undergo an expansion and modernization by the state, even as planning for a new interstate and loop around BCS (I-14 and I-214) continues. A staggering amount of traffic projects are coming. More will be needed, which I will be in support of provided each is thoroughly reviewed and warranted. We must coordinate better among governmental agencies, which I have and will continue to advocate for among city, county, state and federal authorities. Growth is not waiting for us to come together and work better with one another. It is incumbent upon us to act, and we are a better community when working together.
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