Anna Jacobsen
Candidate for City Council Member, Claremont, District 4 · Urban Planner
Anna Jacobsen, 43, is an urban planner and managing partner of CityWise, a public policy and urban planning consulting firm she founded in 2020. She has about 17 years of experience as a planner and holds master's degrees in planning and public administration from USC. She has lived in Claremont for seven years, is married with three children, and was a member of Better Claremont Playgrounds, which pushed for playground upgrades in 2024.
Urban Planner.
On the issues
- Housing & Homelessness
Wants to create housing choices and preserve existing housing while ensuring new development fits the community through objective design standards.
“create housing choices while being thoughtful about how we grow”
Source → - Infrastructure & Transportation
Wants to prioritize streets and intersections with the greatest safety need and update the traffic calming policy so improvements do not depend on neighborhood ability to pay.
“so improvements are based on safety needs, not whether any neighborhood can afford to pay them”
Source → - Economy & Jobs
Wants to help longtime businesses stay and make it easier for new ones to open through easier permitting, resources or targeted incentives.
“making permitting easier, connecting businesses with resources, or exploring targeted incentives”
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Supports disciplined use of city resources and a policy for spending surplus funds at the end of a fiscal cycle.
“being disciplined about how we use our city resources”
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