Neighborhood Quality of Life

Perhaps Eric's strongest focus on the City Council has been his work to ensure that neighborhoods are kept clean, and that codes are followed. We all want to live in neighborhoods that are safe, and where parks, streets, sidewalks, and private property are all well maintained.

Eric has increased the City's code enforcement staff to ensure that the City has the resources needed to keep up with rental inspections and exterior property maintenance. He has increased fines on repeat offenders for litter and trash, and has created a more responsive timeline for delinquent property owners to come into compliance for violations.

Eric has also been a strong proponent of the City's noise enforcement program, which seeks to address late-night noise problems in a way that does not put complainants at risk. These are a few of the many programs Eric has supported to create a better quality of life in College Park.

Investment in neighborhood improvements -- both maintaining what exists, and looking at new improvements -- is important. Playgrounds, sidewalks, bike paths, and other amenities are essential to create neighborhoods where existing families will stay, and where new families will be attracted.

Eric has championed many of these investments in College Park to enhance our family friendly neighborhoods. Some of these public investments include buying new playground equipment, re-grading and replanting soccer fields, building bike/pedestrian paths, adding street lighting, and getting the City to buy a historic building to make it available for community use.

Eric has also been the leader behind City investment in popular arts and culture programs, and historic preservation -- all of which help to create a rich, appealing community.

In addition, Eric gets things done when other agencies are responsible. Eric has been successful getting Metro to remove graffiti on their property, he has helped re-route Metrobus routes to better serve people, and he has worked out deals with CSX Railroad to keep a pedestrian crossing desired by the community.

As a County Councilman, Eric will continue to pursue neighborhood quality of life concerns and will fight for a more robust code enforcement program in Prince George's County. Eric will tackle the problem of unauthorized roadside signs -- such as the ubiquitous "We Buy Homes," "Work from Home," etc. -- that blight our County. Eric will crack down on these and other problems in our community.