Douglas R. Boulter (R)

Office Sought: District Supervisor Lee
Age: 58
Residence: Virginia Hills.
Education: BA, history, Dickinson College; MA, political science, master's, philosophy, Columbia University.
Occupation: Retired Army officer.
Web site:http://www.dougboulter.org
E-mail address: doug@dougboulter.org
Offices and positions held: Past president, Virginia Hills Citizens Association; member, Lee District Land Use Committee; past member, Virginia Council on Human Rights and Fairfax School Board's career and technical education advisory committee; president, Forward Fairfax; past chief election officer at various precincts in Lee District.

Why should voters elect you?

"My solutions and new ideas for growth and transportation, neighborhood stability and the environment will best preserve our neighborhoods and enhance our quality of life."

What do you think is the most urgent problem facing your jurisdiction?

"Beside the traffic issue, our most urgent problem is the operation of illegal boarding houses in our residential neighborhoods, a problem that has a major impact on our quality of life. To solve this problem, we need more zoning inspectors to identify the violations and more lawyers in the county attorney's office to bring suit against violators who won't comply. We need the will to identify violations as soon as they occur and to stay focused on each one until it is resolved. And we need a system of fines that act as a deterrent."

What is your plan to address the traffic problems in Virginia?

For too long, Fairfax County has had rapid population growth without providing any new transportation infrastructure to support that growth. Now it's time to restrict growth where the needed infrastructure isn't in place until we catch up. Within Lee District, we need to use spot improvements and signal timing to fix individual problems, particularly on Richmond Highway, and we need to fix the intersections at Beulah and the Franconia-Springfield Parkway and at Van Dorn and Franconia. On the Fairfax County Parkway, we need to speed up the replacement of intersections with cloverleafs or slip ramps. To do these things, we need to utilize the County's remaining bonding capacity. We need to strengthen the alternatives to driving by providing more parking at Metro stations, constructing more bus shelters along bus routes, adding bike lanes to our roads, and completing sidewalks and trails.

Do you think current policies governing growth & development in your area are too restrictive, not restrictive enough or just right?

not restrictive enough

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