It has been nearly three months, and I’m really enjoying representing you and serving you on the Council. It is truly an honor. I’ve been quite busy and wanted to give you a few updates.

Happy Friday everyone. Here are a few updates from the City Council. First, the big one:

I hope you are enjoying the unseasonably warm weather these past few days. My family and I had an outing yesterday when we attended the Annapolis march for women's rights. Beautiful weather for such an important gathering.

I have a few updates I'd like to share with everyone.

Good afternoon,

I hope everyone is staying warm this weekend! I have a few updates that I wanted to make you aware of.

Council business

Message from your Alderman

On July 18th, the City gave final approval to a proposal to build a Starbucks Cafe adjacent to the CVS on Bay Ridge Road.

The City Council will be hearing public testimony on a resolution in support of the Paris Agreement (dealing with climate change), tomorrow night at 7pm. You can view the agenda here. And you can view the Resolution (R-22-17) at this link. It currently has 5-sponsors, so will likely pass, but I do feel it needs some additional improvements. I hope you will consider coming to testify in support. Climate change is a very real and imminent threat to the City.

With the City’s purchase of the priority forests at the Parkside Preserve development site, it would appear the storied saga of this development is nearing an end. This is the project that exposed the raw underbelly of the City’s review process which allowed clearing of protected forests.  

During my door-knocking, I've had a number of people inquire about the proposed re-development of the former C&C liquors site at the end of Georgetown Road. I have learned quite a bit about it through my work with the Annapolis Neck Peninsula Federation. Here's what I know: