Burlington, VT

Heat pumps in older buildings need a city retrofit program. My duplex from 1920 was un-insulatable until I joined a co-op pool that financed it.

Burlington Electric should buy back rooftop solar at a fair rate, not net-metering at the wholesale price. That's the difference between a nice idea and a financial decision.

ADUs should be allowed by right on every single-family lot in Burlington. We need density to make the climate math work, not five years of zoning meetings per backyard cottage.

Champlain Housing Trust is the model. Buy land, lease it back, lock affordability forever. Don't reinvent it — just expand it.

We need 24/7 mental health responders, not 911. Half the time someone calls about safety it's actually about someone in crisis who needs help, not handcuffs.

When I walk down Church Street with my daughter at 8pm we change blocks because of one specific bench. Move the bench, fix the block.

I served on the Police Commission. The honest answer is more lighting, more outreach, more bus service after 9pm. That's the list.

More late-night food. A city that eats together watches out for itself. Bars closing at 1am with no late food is the problem, not the people.

Friends-of-friends watch lists are not a system. We need a real city-run database where licensed providers post openings as they happen.

City employees should get on-site childcare at City Hall. If the city wants to keep its own workers it has to lead by example.

I dropped to part-time after maternity leave. We can afford daycare or rent — never both. We're moving to Essex in July.

Our co-housing block runs a rotating childcare swap three days a week. It works. The city should fund a coordinator for these informal networks.