Why i'm runningOur community deserves leaders who know how to bring people together in community, and effectively turn ideas into action. I've spent the last decade serving our community—helping local businesses, advancing sustainability, supporting families, and building coalitions that get results. I'm ready to bring that success to city council, and keep building a stronger future for Mountain View. One that sustains us now and into future generations, one that makes us proud, and one we that allows all of us to thrive.
I’m running for Mountain View City Council because I believe this community is worth standing up for. As your Councilmember, I will work with you to create our future.
- IdaRose
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How We’re Standing Up for Mountain View
My promise to every neighbor in our city: On council, I’ll be working hard for you, working hard for your future.
A City Where People Can Stay and ThriveMountain View needs housing that help people stay rooted here — renters, families, seniors, mobile home residents, first-time homebuyers, and the workers our community depends on. I support thoughtful housing creation that meets the needs of our community, strong tenant protections, development and preservation of affordable housing, community ownership models, and planning that envisions a complete community with the infrastructure, public safety, services, parks and biodiversity, active transportation routes, and transportation needed to support thriving neighborhoods long into the future.
]ECONOMIC VITALITY THAT SERVES ALL OF US Small businesses are at the heart of what makes Mountain View’s community so special, and we have to support them. I will work to expand our business districts, protect businesses by cutting red tape, and ensuring businesses know Mountain View welcomes them. I also will support the dozens of innovative, emerging businesses that call Mountain View home, helping build sustainable jobs for our future.
A COMMUNITY READY FOR THE FUTURE
Climate change is already shaping daily life in Mountain View — from hotter streets to higher infrastructure demands. I will push for practical, visible climate action that makes our city safer, healthier, more affordable, and more beautiful now: cleaner buildings, more trees and shade, biodiversity-supporting landscapes, more parks and preserved open space, water resilience, and safer ways to walk, bike, and get around town.
A City That Works for YouThe Mountain View community should have a meaningful voice in decisions, understand actions that will impact their lives, and feel empowered to make a difference. I’ll work for clearer information, more transparent processes, earlier outreach, stronger support for neighborhoods and volunteers, and better ways for residents to help shape the future of our city, and also make sure you have the information, and the voice, you deserve.
About idaroseI studied city planning at UC Berkeley because I believed cities can serve everyone - but only when they're built by everyone.
I've spent the last decade as a leader on three Mountain View advisory bodies - the Parks and Recreation Commission, the Human Relations Commission, and the Environmental Sustainability Task Force. I've served on the boards of CSA, our community safety net, and CHAC, our community mental health provider.
During the pandemic, I founded an award-winning nonprofit, Appetite for Good, that saved dozens of local restaurants while feeding hundreds of our families. I built coalitions that passed climate-safe building codes across the Bay Area. I built my own small business helping other small businesses succeed. And I built Together We Will, the organization that brought tens of thousands of us together this past year.
I'm running for City Council because I want to keep building. With you.
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