SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS
Crime in Hillcrest, North Park, City Heights, Kensington, University Heights and City Heights is up and the city's response has been to cut police services. So John Hartley started Partners for Safe Neighborhoods. John has personally organized 11 Neighborhood Watch groups throughout our district. This spring, John led community opposition to proposed police cuts. Even with the support of the SD Police Officers Association (POA), we were unable to stop the elimination of our community relations officers. "My top priority will be to restore neighborhood policing, put more cops on the streets and make our neighborhoods safer."
CLEAN ELECTIONS
City Hall is mired in scandal. Developers, lobbyists and big campaign contributors have more clout than our neighborhoods. Tax breaks, sweetheart leases and backroom deals cause cuts in city services and, in effect, use our tax dollars to subsidize special interests. To clean up City Hall, John Hartley founded Neighborhoods for Clean Elections, modeled after Clean Elections programs in Maine and Arizona. Their goal: Reform city elections and reduce the clout of big money contributors. “I stood up to the lobbyists and to special interests before, and I will do it again. It’s time to return power to our neighborhoods.”
STOPPING OVERDEVELOPMENT & PROTECTING OPEN SPACE
As developers push high-density projects onto single family streets and gobble up canyons, our neighborhoods are suffering. For the past 20 years, John Hartley has led a countless efforts to save open space and to stop developers from destroying our neighborhoods. John has been honored numerous times by the Sierra Club for his activism. “On the Council, I have always put neighborhoods first. City Hall belongs to the people, not the developers. ”
