Our Airdrie. Our Home.
A four-year term goes by quickly, and Airdrie needs leadership with a strong background, ready to take action from day one. Our city faces many competing priorities, but each one is important to improving quality of life. As a resident, you are at the centre of this community. Your happiness, well-being, and daily life come first. The places we live shape us, and our well-being - social, mental, physical, and economic - is deeply connected to our community. By strengthening everyday experiences, my commitment is to help build a healthier, more connected, and more supportive Airdrie - one where everyone feels at home.
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Focus Areas
Balancing Growth for a Growing City
Issue: As Airdrie continues to grow rapidly, it is crucial to maintain balance and stability across ​the social, economic, cultural, and environmental pillars of sustainability. A focus has been on growth, but it needs to be intentional. Currently, our infrastructure is more stressed, service needs are not being met, gaps are becoming wider, with our quality of life declining. ​
Why it matters:​​
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Align municipal policies directly tied to the needs of Airdrie residents with long-term sustainability, balancing growth with affordability and livability.
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Build regional collaborations with shared systems and supports (transit, roads, business supports, etc.).
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Advocate for stronger collaboration with provincial and federal governments to secure funding for health, education, and infrastructure.
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Tools & Tactics: Strengthening Cultural Policy, Systems Thinking
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Strengthening Neighbourhoods and Third Places
Issue: Urban sprawl is spreading and becoming more expensive. It pulls resources away from the community, makes it harder for people to connect with each other, and weakens opportunities to consolidate services. ​​
Why it matters:​​
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Strengthen our sense of belonging and safety by creating more opportunities to come together - including block parties, associations, and volunteer initiatives.
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Support gradual, mixed-use development of neighbourhood hubs, with a focus on building downtown density, walkability, accessibility, and affordability.
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Increased connectivity with transit hubs and service.
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Planning people-centered spaces through tactical urbanism - social places bringing neighbours together and make Airdrie more connected and vibrant.
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Tools & Tactics: Mixed-Density & Transit Accessibility
Building Community Wealth
Issue: Locally owned businesses and properties circulate the most wealth back into the community, yet they can be often difficult to start, grow, and sustain. Additionally, there has been pressure on the residential tax base, stressing residents and creating a deficit of services. ​​
Why it matters:​
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Invest in skills for trades, technology, creative industries, and small-scale production to strengthen a local-focused economy.
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Foster community pride and connection to place to keep wealth circulating locally.
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Reduce pressure on residential taxes with commercial business regenerative frameworks.
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Prioritize supporting development models and systems that enable independent, locally owned businesses and entrepreneurs to thrive.
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Tools & Tactics: Business Attraction, Small-Scale Manufacturing
Long-Term Capital Project Planning
Issue: Planning for Airdrie's long-term growth is complex, especially with many community dynamics, external factors and conditions. As the city grows and matures, future-thinking serving our population demographics and maintaining our infrastructure will need to be addressed. ​​
Why it matters:
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Focus resources on critical projects that drive revitalization, generate revenue, capture value (ROI), and prepare for future growth.
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Create a transparent, phased capital plan to understand project priorities, timelines and community benefits.
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Support the next stage of city maturity and maintain high-performing areas to ensure long-term productivity and livability.
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Tools & Tactics: Downtown Revitalization
Building Capacity in Future Leaders
Issue: With a decline in civic engagement, Airdrie needs to foster continuous renewal of community participation and leadership, building resilience in addressing complex challenges and building diverse representation.​​
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Integrating open opportunities for residents to grow skills through volunteerism, community groups, and associations.​
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Strengthen support systems for children and youth to build a strong sense of belonging and connection to community.
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Build pathways for residents to actively engage in city planning and decision-making, ensuring diverse voices help shape Airdrie’s future.
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Tools & Tactics: Innovation Labs , Building People Power
Building Community Identity and Civic Pride
Issue: Airdrie has a bedroom community dynamic to a major city which makes it harder to strengthen our own community identity and deepen connection to place.​​
Why it matters:​
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Fostering a strong, authentic city identity, residents are more likely to support local, get involved, invest in the community, and contribute to civic improvements.
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Building a true sense of place, through relationships, events, and shared experiences, creates pride and strengthens community connections as social capital investments.
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Supporting our culture, as the culture of our community sets the tone and foundations of our values with each other.
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Tools & Tactics: Cultural Master Plan