It's Time To Fix Alexandria's Storm Drains

Flooded Basements. Unusable Yards. Raw Sewage Flowing into Homes.

No one living in our city should have to deal with this over and over with no end in sight.   

This is a complicated problem caused by aging infrastructure, overdevelopment and climate change. But, enough is enough. There is no excuse in a city of our size with our resources for this to be occurring year after year.

Addressing Alexandria’s Storm Drains Crisis Needs To Become a Top Priority of our City’s

 

Darryl’s Plan For Fixing Our Storm Drains

  1. A Czar to Take Charge —  Appoint a Water Infrastructure Czar with direct accountability to the Mayor and the Council — and the public — to take charge of this issue and cut through red tape. 

  2. Produce an Accelerated Plan — Instruct City staff to develop, by January 1, 2022, a comprehensive citywide plan, with defined deliverables, and accelerated timelines.

  3. Pursue Federal Funds — With Congress likely to enact a $1 trillion infrastructure bill, we need a strategy to obtain emergency and long-term Federal funding to assist the City in addressing flooding.

 
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Common Sense Solutions for Alexandria

  • Give Neighborhoods a Voice

    We need to elect some Council members by districts so neighborhoods have someone on Council they call “their own.”

  • Bring Back our School Resource Officers

    SROs help keep our schools safe, build positive relationships with students and create the foundation for community policing.

  • Fix Our Storm Drains Now

    We need a czar to take charge, a real plan to fix this problem, and a strategy to pursue federal funds.

  • End Road Diets. Preserve Duke St.

    Traffic in Alexandria is bad enough already. Our City should work to alleviate traffic, not make it worse.

  • Hit the Pause Button on Density

    Our schools & infrastructure need to catch up and Alexandria needs a plan for managing additional density.

  • Preserve our Green Space

    Plans to bulldoze Chinquapin Park should be halted. City Hall should preserve what little green space we have — not destroy it.

  • Restore Checks and Balances

    I will bring a fresh perspective to the Council & push for bipartisan, consensus decisions. Politics today is far too divisive. It shouldn’t be that way with city government. Potholes are not Democratic or Republican – they just need to be filled.