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Mayor Christopher Taylor announces reelection bid, highlights housing and infrastructure gains, vows to oppose new millage
Summary
Mayor Christopher Taylor told supporters he is running for reelection, cited more than 1,200 affordable housing units built or in the pipeline, pointed to roughly $22 million in recent road work, touted a local sustainable energy utility rollout, and pledged to oppose any new city millage.
Mayor Christopher Taylor announced he is running for reelection, saying he wants to continue delivering core services and improving quality of life for Ann Arbor residents. "I'm Christopher Taylor, mayor of the city of Ann Arbor," he said, asking for votes on or before Aug. 4.
Taylor framed his campaign around local priorities, including housing affordability, safer streets and climate action. He said the city "has built and has in the pipeline more than 1,200 units of new permanent affordable housing, tripling our supply over the next 5 years." Taylor described the housing work as targeted at seniors, young people and teachers.
On fiscal issues, Taylor said the majority of property taxes go to education and that the city receives about 25% of property tax revenue. He pledged to oppose any new city millage and said he will not propose "reckless city borrowing," describing that stance as a distinguishing feature of his campaign.
Taylor also highlighted infrastructure work. He said the city has undertaken what he called "unprecedented" road repairs and reconstructions over the past four years and stated the city has invested more than $22,000,000 in repairs to make streets safer and more accessible. (The transcript contains a garbled numeric; the figure above reflects the speaker's intended numeric claim as presented.)
On climate and energy, Taylor described Ann Arbor as a national leader and promoted the Sustainable City Utility (SCU). He said the SCU is serving about 100 homes in the Bryant neighborhood now and is expected to serve more than 1,000 homes citywide next year.
Taylor closed by listing daily services he said the city delivers—clean water, parks, recycling, safe streets—and noted expanded ambulance services for medical calls. He said he is endorsed by members of the city council, the Washtenaw County Commission and the state House, as well as organizations including Planned Parenthood Advocates of Michigan, the Washtenaw County Skilled Building Trades Council and Ann Arbor Firefighters Local 693. For more information he directed listeners to taylorforannarbor.com.
