Forsyth County is one of the fastest-growing counties in Georgia. That is a fact. What is also a fact: we are approving development faster than our roads, schools, green space, and water infrastructure can absorb it. We call that growth. It isn't. It's extraction—developers profit, and residents pay the tab in traffic, overcrowded classrooms, and disappearing tree canopy.

Growth is not the problem. Unaccountable, donor-driven growth with no infrastructure plan is the problem. And we have been choosing it, repeatedly, for years.

What I will do:

• Require infrastructure capacity assessments—roads, schools, utilities—before new development approvals are granted. If the infrastructure isn't there, the approval waits.

• Fight for tree canopy protections and green space preservation requirements with actual enforcement teeth, not guidelines that get waived at the next meeting.

• Push for affordable housing requirements in new residential developments. The teachers, nurses, and service workers keeping this county running deserve to live here too.

• Demand transparency on every zoning vote: who requested it, who donated to whom, and what the infrastructure impact is. On the record. Every time.

• Invest in and protect existing public spaces—parks, libraries, trails—as essential infrastructure, not line items to cut when the budget gets tight.

We didn't have to end up here. We made choices. We can make different ones.