One Main Street. Keep it that way.
1 mileHow far my opponent's plan would stretch Main Street, in every direction
Main Street is what people picture when they think of Harrison. Its owners built that, and they pay for it every month in commercial rent, commercial insurance and every rule that comes with a storefront in the historic district.
AColumn AMy opponent's plan would allow
- Any property within a mile of a Main Street building to become a storefront with apartments or offices above
- Restaurants, bars, delis, cafés and stores inside residential homes, with no rezoning
- No township parking minimums. Each owner decides how much parking to build
ColumnBColumn BKevin's plan
Fix the codes for the people already invested here. Faster answers and clearer rules for Main Street businesses through the Economic Development Committee, and commerce kept where it belongs.
What it means for you
Main Street works for one reason. There's only one of it. Stretch it a mile in every direction and the foot traffic stretches thin with it.
And most of Main Street's shops sit on South Main. North Main barely has any. A mile out from every Main Street building covers at least a quarter of Harrison. Fill the Main Street we already have before we spread it across the township.
A competitor could open in a living room three blocks from a shop that pays commercial rent, and skip every cost that shop carries. Businesses that skip parking send their customers to the spaces Main Street shoppers use now, and onto the side streets where families live.
A mile in every direction is not Main Street. It's your street.
Keep more of your money
5–0The 2025 municipal tax cut Kevin moved to introduce, passed unanimously
AColumn AMy opponent's plan
My opponent's platform has no plank on property taxes, the township budget or the tax rate.
ColumnBColumn BKevin's plan
Cut your taxes in 2025. Voted against the increase in 2026. Kevin will keep fighting every tax increase that can't prove the need, and put every budget assumption in front of you before the vote.
In 2025, Kevin made the motion to introduce the budget that cut municipal taxes for the first time in recent memory, then seconded its adoption. The whole committee got behind it, and it passed 5 to 0. That's what a committee can do when it works together on your behalf.
The 2026 budget went the other way, and Kevin voted against it. He thought the township could hold the line again, and he said so with his vote.
Harrison's finances are strong. Kevin wants that strength showing up on your tax bill.
Protect the neighborhood you chose
EveryHome where my opponent's plan would allow a restaurant, store or bar, without rezoning
AColumn AMy opponent's plan would allow
- Shops with apartments or offices above on any property within a mile of a Main Street building
- Restaurants, stores and bars inside residential homes, without rezoning
- An in-law unit of up to 1,000 square feet on every residential lot, and no minimum lot size for any lot on sewer
ColumnBColumn BKevin's plan
Your street stays zoned residential. Commerce belongs on Main Street and in our business districts.
What it means for you
Harrison's neighborhoods were zoned residential for a reason. These changes would bring commercial traffic, delivery trucks and more households onto streets where kids walk to the bus and ride bikes, and neighbors would have no say before it happens.
Our infrastructure is already working hard. On August 27, one storm dropped 4 to 5 inches of rain in two hours and overwhelmed the township's sewer system, with overflows reported to the state. When the sewer is full, my opponent's answer is to let builders pay for upgrades or build their own wastewater treatment on site. That could mean a small treatment plant on a residential lot, next to someone's backyard.
Smart growth, not warehouse sprawl
2.1MSquare feet of Route 322 warehouses the Land Use Board voted down in 2022
AColumn AMy opponent's plan
My opponent has no plan for this. His platform never mentions warehouses.
ColumnBColumn BKevin's plan
Draft the ordinance that bans warehouses on every parcel without vested rights.
In 2022, hundreds of residents packed the Land Use Board, and the board voted down 2.1 million square feet of warehouses on Route 322. The developer is pushing ahead anyway.
Richwood and the Russo site now hold vested rights. Every other parcel is still ours to protect, and state law gives the committee the power to do it.
Warehouses bring trucks, and trucks belong on truck routes, not on your street. Kevin voted to back Woolwich's truck route map, which keeps big rigs on county roads at our shared border. He made the motion to ban tractor-trailers from parking at Harrison's parks and the township property around them. And he made the motion to ban commercial trucks and trailers from parking on Walnut Lane, Earlington Avenue and East Avenue.
Rezoning authority under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-62.
Farmland stays farmland
1,076+Acres of preserved farmland in Harrison
Our farms are why Harrison looks and feels the way it does. In January 2026, Kevin made the motion to permanently preserve another Harrison farm, restricting it to agriculture for good. Farm-scale solar arrays have to sit 100 feet from the neighbors today.
Kevin puts solar in the right place. In 2025 he voted to lock in the performance bond for the solar project at Harrison's old landfill, large-scale solar on land that isn't feeding anyone.
AColumn AMy opponent's plan would allow
- Farm-scale solar panels 10 feet from your property line, down from 100 feet today
ColumnBColumn BKevin's plan
Keep preserving Harrison's farms, keep the 100-foot setback between solar fields and your property line, and speed up rooftop solar permits.
Fix the codes that hold Harrison back
10 yrsWithout an Economic Development Committee, until it came back in 2025
AColumn AMy opponent's “Cut Red Tape” plan would
- Shrink setbacks so new buildings can go up closer to the street
- Let each property owner decide how much parking to build
- Remove the minimum lot size on every lot connected to sewer
ColumnBColumn BKevin's plan
Bring the Economic Development Committee's recommendations to a vote. Clear rules and faster answers, without harming your neighborhood or your children.
Business owners and residents keep raising the same concern. Harrison's codes make simple things hard, and they're right.
This summer, Nancy Daiutolo, who owns Organic Soak on South Main Street, came to a committee meeting after she received a notice of violation because her sandwich board sign was a few inches too big. Kevin read the code. It's confusing. Right there in that meeting, he committed to simplifying it, so owners like Nancy can spend their time running a business instead of decoding the rules.
That's the work the Economic Development Committee was built for. In 2025 Kevin supported and helped establish it, after a decade without one. Six seats are set aside for local business owners and community stakeholders, plus one for the Mullica Hill Business Association, and new businesses get a guide through the process instead of a maze.
Economic Development Committee created by Ordinance 17-2025.
My opponent wants it. Kevin's done it.
$2MState grants Kevin voted on for roads, parks and pedestrian safety
AColumn AMy opponent wants to
- Go after state grants for paths, crosswalks and safer routes to school
- Fully use NJDOT Safe Routes to School grants
ColumnBColumn BKevin has done it
Approximately $2 million in state grants voted on since 2024. Keep winning them, including Safe Routes to School, and get the shovels in the ground faster.
Kevin has voted on approximately $2 million in state grants for Harrison. He voted to put $1.1 million to work on Williamson Lane, Woodland Avenue, High Street, Ella Harris Park and more, and made the motion that saved a $175,000 pedestrian-safety grant for North Main Street. That contract came in under the grant. He voted yes on the applications that won $290,000 for a bike path on Mullica Hill Road and $204,642 for Sherwin Road.
Williamson Lane is finished and paved. North Main Street is under contract. Sherwin Road is next, with drainage work to ease local flooding.
Grants are only part of it. In 2025, Kevin seconded $376,014 to resurface Willowbrook Farms, one of Harrison's oldest and largest neighborhoods.
Keep our streets safe
$175KPedestrian-safety grant for North Main Street that Kevin moved to save
Safe streets start with a strong police department and road changes that police, fire and EMS sign off on first. As deputy public safety director, Kevin works alongside Mayor Adam Wingate and Chief David Marro, who took command of the department in September.
At Orchard View, Kevin made the motion that funded the township's share of the new traffic light at Woodland Avenue and North Main Street, and seconded its re-adoption in 2025. Residents of Harrison's 55-and-older community pull onto North Main under that light every day.
AColumn AMy opponent's plan would allow
- Speed bumps, road narrowing and roundabouts requested through an online form
ColumnBColumn BKevin's plan
Judge every land use decision by what it puts on our roads, in our schools and on our police.
What it means for you
Speed bumps and road narrowing slow fire trucks and ambulances too. Portland's fire bureau measured up to 9 seconds of delay for a fire truck at a single speed bump. Kevin's view is simple. Road changes get police, fire and EMS sign-off first, not an online form.
