You Spoke. We Listened. We Promise:

Protect“ Single Family” zoning by restoring it to the Master Plan.
Place limits on the construction of “Big Foot“ houses and downtown skyscrapers.
Return to current city zoning and Federal ADA parking requirements in high-rise buildings.

Preserve affordable homes by limiting their replacements with McMansions and Big Foots.
Provide public and private incentives to renovate existing smaller homes.
Study and quantify existing rental stock and vacancies: explore ways to assist landlords in improving apartments to blend in with and complement adjacent Single Family neighborhoods.
Support home ownership in every age group so that residents can build equity, instead of paying rent to the already wealthy.
Work to reduce additional admin fees and pare down city expenditures to reduce taxes so that seniors can age in place in their own affordable homes.

Maintain properly sized roads to accommodate emergency vehicles and peak traffic flow — no more obstructive medians, road narrowing or road diets.
Maintain and repave roads.

Work with SMART to expand their on-demand 7-days-a-week FLEX transportation service in Royal Oak. (Currently, the Senior Center bus only operates five days a week from 9AM to 3:30PM – so if a senior wants to go to the 7:30PM City Commission meeting and they don’t drive, for example, there’s no way for them to get there.)
Prioritize making downtown parking accessible for all.
Establish better means of communication for seniors through multiple channels such as direct mail, social media and email in order for them to get current news.

Help downtown businesses recover from the parking debacle: Provide parking passes to residents to promote a “return to downtown”.

Stop allowing developers to cut down 100-year-old legacy trees marked for preservation in the site plan.
Incentivize developers to protect existing mature trees.

Shorten public meetings.
Provide meeting agendas several days in advance and avoid moving the date to counter civic participation.
Provide technology that enables citizens to show and project their own pre-approved images (similar to what the city of Novi does.)

Strengthen Royal Oak’s ethics ordinance and disclosure requirements so that campaign donations never lead to rubber stamped approvals.
Listen to and collaborate with resident input so that the best solutions surface.