Where Debbie stands
Half Moon Bay faces real housing pressure: state housing mandates, high costs, and too few homes local workers and families can afford.
Debbie supports practical housing that meets local needs while preserving local control where the City still has that choice. That means building on appropriate sites, making ADUs easier, and moving projects that meet clear standards through the permit process in months, not years.
Debbie's record
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Stone Pine Cove Farmworker Housing
The City and San Mateo County developed more than 40 modular homes for Coastside farmworkers and their families on city-owned land. Residents began moving in during 2025. Debbie helped advance the city-county partnership that made it possible, while the County led development and funding.
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Opportunity Sites for Affordable Housing
Debbie supported the City's work with HCD to identify sites for future housing and rezone those properties so affordable housing can be built there. She supports well-designed infill housing in and around downtown, including the proposed Metzgar project.
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Housing for the People Who Live and Work Here
Debbie believes locally supported affordable housing should first help people who already live or work in Half Moon Bay. The City should use every tool available under state and federal law to give local residents and workers a fair chance to remain part of the community.
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Making ADUs Easier
Debbie supports making it easier for homeowners to build accessory dwelling units without using a full Measure D allocation. ADUs can give families more options for aging parents, adult children, caregivers and multigenerational living.
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Faster, Clearer Permitting
Debbie supports a simpler approval process for projects that meet the City's rules. Clear standards should protect neighborhood character while allowing appropriate housing to move from application to construction in months, not years.
What's next
The City expects to meet its 2030 housing obligation through a mix of new development, below-market-rate housing, accessory dwelling units and fully subsidized projects. Meeting that obligation is critical to avoiding Builder's Remedy and protecting the City's ability to shape future development.
Debbie supports exploring a community land trust that could help local residents build equity, as well as social housing models that combine market-rate and below-market-rate homes in the same project.
On 555 Kelly, Debbie is engaged in the City's review of the project's height, parking and scale. She will respect the will of the voters on the project and, if necessary, support relocating the housing to another site.
