VOTE411 Voter Guide

My top priority is managing New Braunfels' growth responsibly — ensuring infrastructure keeps pace with development while preserving our small-town character and heritage. As your incumbent Councilwoman and the first in city history to earn the Texas Municipal League's Certified Municipal Official designation, I deliver results. We held the line on property taxes, maxed out impact fees so new development pays its fair share, and launched One Water New Braunfels to protect our water resources as we grow. I'll keep fighting for roads, water, and drainage investments; holding developers accountable; standing against overdevelopment; and ensuring every decision serves the families and traditions that define New Braunfels.

Good city leadership starts with respect — for your colleagues, the process, and the people you serve. In my first term, I've worked with council members holding very different views and still delivered results: no tax increase, maximum impact fees, and One Water New Braunfels. That happened not because we agreed on everything, but because we stayed focused on what's best for our city. I disagree respectfully and with data. I listen when residents speak — for or against. I hosted District 5 Community Forums because the best decisions include every voice, not just the loudest. I earned the TML Certified Municipal Official designation because I believe in doing the homework and coming prepared. That's how you build trust.

New Braunfels is nearly 129,000 people, growing 5% a year. Growth is coming — the question is whether it serves the people already here or just those building here. Three priorities: 1. Infrastructure before development. Roads, water, and drainage need to be in place before the rooftops go up — not ten years after. 2. Make growth pay for itself. We raised impact fees to the legal maximum and held property taxes flat. Existing residents shouldn't subsidize new development. Period. 3. Protect what makes New Braunfels special. Our downtown, heritage, and neighborhood character. Growth without identity isn't progress — it's sprawl. We can grow and still be New Braunfels — but only if we plan right and never lose sight of who we're growing for.

To be a true representative of the citizens. I will truly listen to our great citizens, and represent their wishes, not rule over them. The overwhelming majority of our city are not happy with the pace of our growth the last couple of years. We have tools at our disposable, legally allowed by the state of Texas, that we can use to better control the pace of our growth. We need to utilize everything that we can to preserve the beautiful Hill Country that we call home, before it is too late. We need to immediately pause any rezoning approvals that increase the density allowance of the property in question. Not forever, but for now, until we can catch up, and then re-evaluate.

Disagreement and debate are supposed to be integral to our government. I believe that we need more of that locally. When citizens see their elected representatives debating on their behalf, it makes them feel heard. I am going to fight for the needs of the many, over the desires of the elite few.

We need to prioritize putting our current citizens first over the profit-margins of developers. Most of the over-development that has occurred over the last few years has needed rezoning approvals to move forward. A property owner, or developer buying that property, has a legal right to develop it as it is currently zoned. They do not need permission from the city to do that. As I stated before, we need to pause approvals for increased density zoning.