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Councilwoman Lynn McIlhaney is running for reelection and being challenge by two other candidates in the campaign for College Station City Council Place 4.
Councilwoman McIlhaney, Mayor Pro Tem, is a long serving member of the local government, and has served as a city council member or mayor for 22 of the last 27 years. It should also be noted that McIlhaney is a member of the Arts Council of the Brazos Valley, Keep Brazos Beautiful, and was a board member of the Brazos Valley Animal Shelter. McIlhaney is the only candidate for Place 4 who answers all of the Brazos Progressives candidate survey questions.
According to an article in The Eagle, McIlhaney supports building a convention center to foster tourism; however, she would also support allowing the voters to have the final word in a referendum. The councilwoman believes that the current City Hall "does not give us the space needed for future growth, it is not centrally located for our citizens and the cost to re-locate rather than renovate is a better investment for our citizens in the long term."
She supports the U.S. Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement and noted that the city is in the "process of looking for a staff person to co-ordinate the Green City program." On her list of possible improvements are hybrid cars, energy efficient buildings, and continuing the wind watts program. Along with these the councilwoman also supports promoting the curb side recycling program, and ensuring that new programs are cost effective and achieve the goal of reducing waste.
Providing access to pedestrians, bicyclists, and wheel chair users is something that McIlhaney supports, and note that the city plans to address the issue of "connectivity through our transportation plan as part of the new Comprehensive Plan and our Greenways Plan." The councilwoman does not support funding for a permanent farmer's market. Although she supports public/private partnerships, she does not "support tax payers buying land, building a building" in order to create a permanent famer's market.
According to the article in the Eagle McIlhaney supports the current "conservative approach" to annexing land, and believes that the city should encourage "development within the existing city limits, in-fill development, zoning, building standards and pedestrian friendly infrastructure."
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