Ed Lauing
Candidate for City Council (At-Large), Palo Alto · (No Ballot Designation)
Ed Lauing has served as Mayor, Vice Mayor, and chair of the Finance and Housing committees on the Palo Alto City Council. Before joining the council, he completed four terms on the Parks and Recreation and Planning and Transportation commissions, and was elected chair of those bodies five times. His career includes three decades in nonprofit leadership, three terms as a software startup CEO, and work as an executive recruiter.
Positions in brief
He wants to expand affordable housing, strengthen public safety, and maintain fiscal discipline while responsibly managing growth and protecting parks and neighborhoods.
Lauing emphasizes expanding affordable housing and strengthening public safety as core goals, alongside maintaining the fiscal discipline needed to prioritize and sustain city services. He frames growth management around protecting parks and neighborhoods, and describes his governing approach as listening carefully, preparing thoroughly, finding common ground, and pursuing practical solutions over ideological ones.
On the issues
- Housing & Homelessness
Emphasizes expanding affordable housing as a core goal.
“expand affordable housing”
Source → - Public Safety & Policing
Highlights his council leadership on public safety and commits to strengthening it further.
“strengthen public safety”
Source → - Taxes & Cost of Living
Advocates for fiscal discipline to prioritize and sustain city services.
“the fiscal discipline needed to prioritize and sustain excellent city services”
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