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Resident of Colorado for 5 years. Resident of Granby for 4 years.

Q: In your opinion, what are the three most important issues facing Granby over the next four years, and what specifically would you like the Board of Trustees to do about them?

One of my biggest concerns is our infrastructure. Making sure our infrastructure actually keeps up with the pace of our growth is definitely one of the biggest ones. I’d say development could be both an issue, but also we obviously need development. It’s not that I’m against development, but I think some of the ways we are developing right now is not in the best interest of Granby. I think we need to have a better look at Granby’s comprehensive plan and how we’re actually maintaining our community character for development and having better connections with our neighborhood and our commercial areas. 

Honestly, the third one right now that I can personally see, and that I know a lot of the residents see, is that it just kind of feels like the board is against each other right now. So I feel like we need a we need a town board that actually all cohesively flows and works together, and doesn’t feel like they’re up in arms with each other at all times. 

We have a comprehensive plan already for Granby. Like we, I know Granby met with multiple of the citizens last year. I attended some of the meetings about what the residents wanted for growth, what could happen for growth, and I feel the town board has kind of gotten away from those a little bit. I think we need to just get back to what the community and the residents actually want, and I feel like that would fix a lot of the issues right there. Actually, listening to our community, listening to our residents, listening to the people who are actually funding a lot of the projects through our tax dollars.

Q: What is one area where you believe the town should be spending more money, and one area where you believe spending should be more carefully scrutinized?

I would like to still see us continue prioritizing our roads and our core infrastructure. As Granby grows, which we know is inevitable, Granby is growing, and we need to make sure the basics are keeping up with that growth. So our water, our roads, our sidewalks, and any other infrastructure-it’s not necessarily exciting to spend money on it, but that’s what we as residents and the businesses depend on every single day. I’d rather invest in maintaining what we have than wait until something becomes a much more expensive problem down the road. As far as less spending, let’s see. I don’t think I would necessarily say anything needs to be cut at the moment. I’d want to actually go through and see what we have been spending money on before I’d say let’s cut something right now, and I have not gone through the Granby Town budget, so I do not feel confident in saying what we need to cut money on at the moment to benefit any residents right now. So I don’t want to answer that before I know more about it.

Q: How should the town balance the needs of year-round residents, local businesses, second-home owners and visitors when those interests conflict?

There has to be balance. Second homeowners and visitors are incredibly important to Granby. They’re incredibly important to our business owners because they are the ones supporting our restaurants, shops, contractors and any other local businesses. They do contribute significantly to our economy, and we want Granby to be a place where people actually enjoy visiting, or even own a second home. It’s inevitable; they’re not going away. But when those interests conflict, I do think we have the responsibility to consider the people who live and work here year-round first. They’re the people who raise their families here. They’re the ones sending their kids to schools here. They’re the ones actually working in those businesses and relying on those services every single day. That doesn’t mean we need to make decisions against our visitors or our second homeowners by any means. I just think we need to figure out how we can accommodate tourism and second home ownership without making it harder for the people who live here and need to live here year-round to afford housing and services or maintain their quality of life. I just want Granby to remain a real community, not just a place that people can visit, because there are plenty of us that live here full time.

Q: What should the town be doing to support locally owned businesses and strengthen the year-round economy?

As a small business owner myself, I have a little bit different perspective on this one. I think the main thing, and the very first thing the town needs to do, is we need to actually be listening to our locally owned business owners and be including them in the decisions that affect them directly. Every small business in Granby plays a huge part of what gives Granby its identity, whether that be the signage they have on Agate, or how they give back to Granby, or how they support Granby’s economy, and they also keep the money they make circulating locally to actually help our economy continue to grow. I think the town, I think as a whole, we need to continue looking at more grants. I know there are grants available for small businesses right now. How is the town actually getting that information out to our small business owners? How are they actually making it known to them that these grants are available? If they have incentives? How are they making it known that there are incentives available to improve, maybe their facade or anything in that nature? Are they actually going around and telling them? The town has access to every single person who owns a business in Granby. They can easily know exactly who to contact to make sure they are aware, and are they actually making them aware, or is it just a blatant Facebook post about a grant that’s available? Not every business owner has the chance to take a look at Facebook and take a look at the town Facebook to see if that grant’s available. Not every business owner even has a spare moment in their day to be searching the town website to see what’s available. I think the town needs to do a better job at making sure people know those things are available to them, to help them continue to grow and get better. Maybe that’s for their signage, for anything that they have. And I don’t think we do a great job at making people know that those are available.

Q: In a situation where trustees try to make a decision that a vocal group of residents strongly oppose, how would you approach that situation?

I feel like this has been happening a lot lately. So I think the first thing you just have to do, and the most important thing, is you have to listen and understand why the residents are actually opposed to it. As a trustee, you’re elected to actually represent the community. You’re elected to represent the residents, so public input absolutely matters most. I would want to make sure the residents actually feel heard, and that we’re being transparent about why a decision is being considered. But at the same time, I do know our trustees have more information. They also might have legal requirements or long-term considerations that the public might not always have in front of them. There may be times when decisions, I believe, what is best for Granby isn’t the most popular decision in the moment. I think we’ve seen that a lot recently. If that happens, I think it’s just our responsibility as trustees to explain why we made that decision, but also be willing to stand behind it. If there is significant opposition from residents, I think we need to also be willing to ask whether we missed something. Is there something we’re not noticing that they are noticing? But being elected doesn’t mean we stop listening to our people. We have to always listen to the residents whenever they come forward.

Q: At the end of your term, what specific accomplishments would make you say your time as a trustee was successful?

I’d say at the end of my term, I would consider it successful if Granby had continued to grow in a responsible way, and the residents feel like their voices were actually being heard for those four years. I’d like to actually see real progress on our roads and our infrastructure, and more attainable housing options for the people who work and raise families here, and a downtown that we actually love to just walk down. And there’s so many locally owned businesses, and they’re all thriving.

Q: Granby continues to see development both downtown and in areas such as Granby Ranch and Grand Elk. Where do you believe additional growth makes sense, and what infrastructure needs to be in place before additional development is approved?

I think the additional growth makes the most sense where we already have infrastructure in place, or where it could be reasonably expanded. I don’t think we should just continue pushing developments far out without considering what that means for our roads, our water, our sewer, our town services. I also think there are opportunities, though, for more thoughtful fill-ins around our existing downtown and commercial areas. If we can add housing and businesses in the areas that are already connected to the community, maybe with some of those empty lots in downtown right now, we can strengthen our downtown without creating entirely new infrastructure demands.

Q: Affordable and workforce housing has been a continuing issue in Granby. What specific changes, if any, would you support? What are your thoughts on Granby’s proposed rezoning plan and the Nuche Village project?

I think workforce housing and affordable housing is one of our biggest challenges we have. If our teachers, our first responders, our blue-collar community, our restaurant employees, any other local workers can’t afford to live here, that affects our entire community and every business we have here. I think there’s opportunities to create more housing, including different housing types. I don’t think rezoning by itself will solve the affordability [issue]. The rezoning plan they have right now, we have to make sure we’re actually creating housing that is attainable for the local workforce and that the infrastructure can support that.    

As far as the rezoning plan, I want to actually look into that more and see more information and actually hear from our residents on it before I take a firm position on that one.

Q: As Granby grows, what do you believe the town’s priorities should be for public safety, emergency preparedness and evacuation planning?

As Granby grows, public safety definitely has to grow with it. We can’t continue adding homes and residents without asking whether our police, fire, EMS, roads and emergency any of those types can actually handle the growth. I’d like to say we’re on the right track, at least with EMS, with our brand new building that is about to open shortly. As far as evacuation planning, that’s definitely especially important to me, to every resident here. We live in an area where wildfire risk is an extremely real threat. I think every major development conversation needs to include how the people are going to get out safely in an emergency and how fast first responders can get in. We need adequate access and multiple evacuation routes, and also we need water for fire protection and good fire mitigation. Anything along those lines needs to be carefully considered. 

I think preparedness also has to include communication. Residents need to know where to get their emergency information from. I honestly think right now, I think it could be slightly better, but our community is pretty good about what apps to download to get text communication if anything goes wrong. I think the only thing we can improve upon is, like, where do you go if an emergency happens? What routes should you exit on? That’s about the only thing that I think could get a little clearer for our residents and just needs to be reviewed and practiced.