Your Questions for the Woodinville City Council Candidates

On you want to ask candidates for city council. Those questions were sent, Oct. 4, to candidates , Jeff Glickman, , and .

The candidates have until 5 p.m. Oct. 11 to email their answers back to Patch. Their responses will be posted Wednesday, Oct. 12.

These questions are not to be confused with those that will be asked at the that forum is sponsored by the chamber and will have its own set of questions from the chamber. These questions are from you.

Here are the questions you asked:

1. Are you for or against the protection of R-1?
2. If you were forced to choose between spending money on parks or the police which would you choose and why?
3. Where do you stand on repairing Woodinville’s infrastructure?
4. Per the City's housing permit data base, there have been zero final occupancy certificates issued for single family residences since 2007.  As we all know, this is indicative of the slumping housing market and construction industry.  As a council member, do you have a responsibility to help rectify this situation, such as by revising zoning codes so that they promote construction of single family residences? 
5. Is Woodinville responsible on a regional level to help get this industry back on its feet, which will lead to increased city revenue, local jobs and support enrollment at our schools?
6. Woodinville is proposing to annex rural and agricultural lands into the Urban Growth Area of the city.  Some current council members have stated that "this will help the city meet its Growth Management Act growth numbers", "that people want to be part of our city", and that "these areas are being used in a manner that is not rural or agricultural now, so let's expand the UGA".  Doesn't this fly in the face of the GMA?
7. If these lands are designated rural or agricultural, shouldn't they be returned to this state rather than expanding the UGA? 
8. The King County executive office does not support these annexations, do you support that Woodinville use it's precious resource dollars to pursue these annexations?
9. The R4 (four houses per acre) and higher residentially zoned areas of the city are maxed out.  Do you support the model of future housing growth in the city to all be concentrated in the downtown? 
10. Do you believe this is the best and only way to increase city revenues so that we can get safer pedestrian sidewalks and trails throughout the city?  Have you ever explored alternatives to this model, and what are they?