District 4

Priorities

Four county priorities centered on protecting taxpayers, managing growth responsibly, reducing congestion, and keeping every neighborhood safe.

A county-level approach

County commissioners set policy, approve budgets, oversee major services and infrastructure, and make decisions that shape how communities grow. Curtis will bring a safety-focused, evidence-driven approach to those responsibilities.

Affordability & Taxes

Families, retirees, and small businesses are being squeezed by rising housing, insurance, utility, and everyday costs. County government should respect every tax dollar, focus on essential services, and stop passing the cost of poor planning on to residents.

What Curtis will do

  • Demand transparent budgets and measurable results before approving new taxes, fees, or major spending.
  • Review contracts, duplicative programs, and outdated processes to reduce waste while protecting essential services.
  • Make growth pay its fair share for the infrastructure it requires instead of shifting those costs to current residents.

Overdevelopment & Responsible Growth

Growth should strengthen Palm Beach County—not overwhelm roads, drainage, public safety, water resources, or established neighborhoods. Development decisions must reflect real infrastructure capacity and the long-term interests of the people who already live here.

What Curtis will do

  • Require honest, public capacity reviews before approving major land-use changes or higher-density development.
  • Say no when a project’s traffic, drainage, environmental, or public-safety impacts cannot be responsibly addressed.
  • Protect community character, environmentally sensitive land, and water resources through predictable, transparent planning.

Traffic & Infrastructure

Traffic steals time from families, slows emergency response, and raises costs for local businesses. Palm Beach County needs a coordinated plan that connects transportation, drainage, public safety, and future growth instead of reacting after congestion gets worse.

What Curtis will do

  • Use traffic and safety data, modern signal technology, and practical road improvements to address the county’s worst bottlenecks.
  • Coordinate development approvals with road, drainage, transit, and emergency-access capacity.
  • Publish clear project priorities, timelines, costs, and progress so residents can see what is being fixed and when.

Public Safety

Safe communities depend on well-supported first responders, strong emergency planning, and the resources to keep pace with growth. Police, fire rescue, emergency medical services, and emergency management must remain core county priorities.

What Curtis will do

  • Protect the staffing, training, equipment, and facilities first responders need to serve a growing county.
  • Plan stations, emergency access, communications, and response capacity alongside new development.
  • Strengthen coordination and readiness for hurricanes, major incidents, and day-to-day emergencies while demanding transparency and accountability.

Where Curtis Stands

Clear answers on the issues in front of us.

Residents deserve to know where their commissioner stands before important decisions are made.

Curtis’s positionNo

Large-Scale Data Centers

Curtis opposes Project Tango and similar large-scale data-center proposals that place major new demands on land, power, water, infrastructure, and nearby communities without a clear, enforceable public benefit. Palm Beach County can welcome innovation without asking residents to absorb outsized costs and quality-of-life impacts.

Curtis’s positionNo

Flock License-Plate Cameras

License-plate readers can help investigate serious crimes, but a broad private camera network that records and shares the movements of law-abiding residents raises legitimate concerns about access, retention, and misuse. Curtis believes we can protect both public safety and personal privacy with targeted tools, strict safeguards, independent oversight, and meaningful transparency.

Curtis’s positionNo

Florida Amendment 3

Curtis supports meaningful property-tax relief, but Amendment 3 takes a one-size-fits-all approach that would sharply reduce the local revenue Palm Beach County and its municipalities rely on for police, fire rescue, emergency medical services, roads, and other essentials. Tax relief should be responsible and targeted—not structured in a way that puts first responders and core services at risk.