Francis Drouillard

Housing We must revise zoning laws and enhance planning staff to create more housing compatible with Marin County to reverse decades of insufficient planning. Experienced planning staff must stay on residential construction projects through completion to reduce compliance costs incurred before construction begins. Big box government housing projects and unrealistic housing assessments imposed by Sacramento and ABAG must be opposed. Drug Policy We must end the public drug use and alcoholism that are drivers of homelessness and mental health problems. Our current ''carrot only and no stick'' approach allows grifters to siphon limited resources to house the unfortunate while preventing drug addicts, alcoholics, and those with mental health issues from getting the treatment they need. We must allow law enforcement to stop the cancer of personal and retail theft spreading into Marin County from San Francisco and the East Bay. Criminal Justice / Public Safety What can be done to prevent such crime in Marin County? As your County Supervisor, I will enable police in our cities and our county sheriffs to do their jobs. I will fight to provide them with resources they need to prevent such crimes from spreading into Marin County. I will work with the Marin County Sheriff to establish a task force to coordinate with law enforcement in our cities as well as sheriffs from adjacent counties. Housing It’s time to abandon California’s failed ''Housing First'' plan and implement a ''People First'' plan. Environment / Energy Piping water from the East Bay and desalinization are also proposed. I oppose the later because it is energy intensive and presents serious problems with disposing the brine. And I much prefer buying additional water from the Sonoma County Water Agency than piping it from the East Bay because the infrastructure to do so is already in place. That said I am largely in agreement with the Marin Coalition for Water Solutions. Infrastructure / Transportation Our roads and bridges show an alarming lack of maintenance. We need County government that fights to get its share of state and federal transportation funds. It’s time we get The SMART train is wonderful, but not enough people use it. Every study done to justify the train over the 3 previous decades found as much. At best it’s being used for Sonomans to travel through Marin County. It doesn’t serve that many Marin residents, who would have been better served by a more robust county bus system, which can adjust needs and population changes. Train tracks and stations can’t do the same – they stay. Drug Policy A substantial majority of homeless are drug addicts that eventually develop physical and mental health problems. These homeless must agree to drug treatment to continue receiving services. Drug dealers and public drug users must be arrested and charged. Those with severe mental illness should be removed from the streets and institutionalized to receive forced treatment for their safety as well as the general public.