Affordable

  1. Utility Costs. Relieve financial pressure by carefully tiering and lowering utility costs.

  2. Affordable Housing. Build truly affordable housing through the use of creative building and land banking to allow people to build equity through homeownership.

  3. Additional Income for Homeowners. Create more opportunities for homeowners to create additional income through building and managing additional dwelling units.

  4. Unfunded State Mandates. Collaborate with League of Oregon Cities and Association of Oregon Counties on an upcoming bill that demands fiscal analysis of policy impacts on cities.

  5. County Grants. Fill city-level needs through county allocations and grants.

  6. Tool Library. Build a tool library to share resources and decrease the need for big business purchases with next day deliveries that impact roads and pocketbooks.

Safe

  1. Pedestrian Safety. Prioritize sidewalk construction on key connecting streets through the SAFE program so residents can safely walk to schools, parks, transit, and local businesses.

  2. Self-Defense Classes. Provide affordable self-defense classes through partnership with local services and organizations.

Stable

  1. Community Gathering Places. Create open access to more public community gathering places.

  2. Access to City Leaders. Pledge to attend routine gatherings across all Milwaukie neighborhoods.

  3. Healthy Neighborhood Culture. Create healthy neighborhood culture through knowing neighbors.