"I will preserve Ojai's pristine beauty by standing up to developers and large chain stores who want to ruin our city."
I will balance Ojai's economic need to promote business with our need to be fiscally responsible."

        Creeping blight is a problem for any city, but it hurts us more.  If our little town appears less than beautiful, our guests will visit Santa Barbara instead, or a host of other places where local governments pay attention and invest in the future.

Guess what sits abandoned and falling down for most of the past decade?  
It is on our main street, next door to the Ojai Valley Art and History Museum, and the Oaks Spa.  

 
Visit Scenic Ojai?  To see the gravel trucks?  They ride roughshod over our tourism industry.

The "Y" is the busiest intersection in town.  Across from the beautiful Rotary Community Park and its welcome sign,
 is this abandoned gas station.  You only get one chance to make a good first impression.

The old bowling alley on East Ojai Avenue keeps getting older.      Local citizens have been trying to put it back in service for this city.  We don't have many facilities for entertaining our kids in a healthy way.        Ojai folk are far more involved in their community than their counterparts in Los Angeles.      But as our council staggers from one crisis to the next, the citizens who care haven't had the support they need in  the Council chambers.  The bowling alley has been gathering weeds since 1998.

Pool store no more.  To get to the world-class Ojai Valley Inn and Spa, 
newcomers must drive past this hulk, and the empty Bronk auto dealership.

One block away from Chaparral School on East Ojai Avenue.

The first step in solving problems is to recognize them as problems.  Paul does.

It takes less time and money to fix them, if you can see the problems coming.  Paul can.