Dan Arriola
Candidate for Mayor, Tracy · Deputy District Attorney
Dan Arriola was raised in Tracy and graduated from West High School in 2007. He earned a political science degree as valedictorian from UCLA in 2011 and a law degree from USC, where he served as student body president, in 2014. He works as a Deputy District Attorney for San Joaquin County and previously served as the county's first-ever community prosecutor, developing strategies to address homelessness, human trafficking, and quality-of-life issues. He was elected to the Tracy Unified School District Board in 2016 and to the Tracy City Council in 2018, becoming the city's first millennial and first openly LGBTQ elected official. His council initiatives have included establishing Tracy's first emergency homeless shelter, officially recognizing LGBTQ Pride Month, helping balance the city budget after nearly a decade of deficits, approving the first affordable housing development in the city in over 20 years, and reducing taxes on roughly 75% of local businesses. He founded Young Professionals of Tracy and has served on the boards of the Tracy Chamber of Commerce and One.TLC School for Homeless Children.
Positions in brief
Arriola's priorities include public safety, homelessness response, affordable housing, economic development, infrastructure, and government accountability.
Arriola's platform includes developing a Homeless Strategic Plan and a Neighborhood Violence Reduction Plan with schools, expanding protections for students vulnerable to abuse and trafficking, and attracting diverse industries with career-level wages while improving transportation access to the Bay Area. He supports a multi-phase homelessness approach — emergency shelter, transitional housing with services, and long-term affordable housing — including a navigation center, and wants to increase middle- and low-income housing stock through developer incentives and expedited permitting for projects with at least 25% affordable units. He also calls for enforcing ethics codes and requiring disclosure of city officials' conflicts of interest, investing in historically underserved neighborhoods, establishing youth scholarship resource centers, and pursuing a CSU San Joaquin campus.
On the issues
- Public Safety & Policing
Supports a Homeless Strategic Plan and a school-based Neighborhood Violence Reduction Plan to prevent gang affiliation.
Source → - Economy & Jobs
Wants to attract diverse industries offering career-level wages and improve transportation access to the Bay Area.
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Wants to restore public trust by enforcing ethics codes and requiring disclosure of officials' conflicts of interest.
“RESTORE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE AND TRUST in the integrity of the City of Tracy's government.”
Source → - Infrastructure & Transportation
Supports a fiber-optics network for tech businesses and investment in historically underserved neighborhoods.
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Supports a multi-phase approach of emergency shelter, transitional housing with services, and long-term affordable housing, plus a navigation center.
Source → - Housing & Homelessness
Wants to expand middle-class and low-income housing through developer incentives and expedited permitting for projects with 25%+ affordable units.
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