Five candidates are running for the position of County Executive in 2026.  In alphabetical order they are:  Dave Crawford, James Kitchin, Kyle Nembhard, Allison Pickard, and Pete Smith.  GAN sent a survey of 10 important issues facing the County  to all of the candidates and requested their responses.  Below are the survey questions and links to summaries of the responses.

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Question 1: 

Overdevelopment remains among the top concerns among Anne Arundel County voters. In your opinion, how well has the County balanced the need for growth with the adequacy of infrastructure to support it?   See responses...

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Question 1a.

What actions will you take to achieve that?  See responses...

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Question 2: 

The County Council rejected Bill 23-26 which would have banned developers with business before the county from making campaign contributions.  What is your position and why?  See responses...

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Question 2a:

Would you sign such a bill if the Council passed it?  See responses...

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Question 3:

The County has been systematically undercharging developers by as much as 50% for impact fees since 2008, totaling well into the hundreds of millions of dollars which has been paid for by county taxpayers in what could well be a subsidy to developers worth hundreds of millions of dollars. What would you do to recover the full cost of development impacts?  See responses...

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Question 3a:

What would you do with the additional revenue that would be released if impact fees were fully paid for by development? See responses...

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Question 4:

While there is no shortage of people who can afford to buy or rent expensive homes in Anne Arundel County, there is an acute need for workforce housing at 80-100% of the area median income. Recent legislation allows 90% of new homes to be sold or rented at full market price, with only 10% sold and 15% rented at a moderate price. What will you do as County Executive to increase the supply of affordable workforce housing? See responses...

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Question 5: 

Most Maryland counties have professionally staffed planning boards/commissions authorized to hold public hearings and issue advisory guidance to the County Council concerning land-use projects and policies to decision-making authorities. Will you support tasking the Planning Advisory Board with that mandate? See responses...

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Question 6:

 Everyone acknowledges that projects take too long to get approved in Anne Arundel County. What will you do to speed up project reviews without compromising environmental protections and sustainability? See responses...

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Question 7: 

How will you match county revenues with the need to expand and maintain adequate public facilities and services? See responses...

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Question 8: 

By one accounting, the county has a $200M backlog in repairs of public stormwater management infrastructure. Failed public conveyance systems increase the likelihood of flooding and pollutants negatively impacting water quality in groundwater and streams. What will you do to eliminate the backlog?  See responses...

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Question 9: 

There are over 21,000 stormwater best management practices (BMPs) privately owned by HOAs and inspected triennially by the County. However much more of the storm water management conveyance infrastructure (street drains, manholes, etc.) is also privately owned, often by non-expert HOAs who don’t even know about them. MDE recently proposed changes to regulations that would also require triennial inspections of these. Would you support the County mapping and inspections of private conveyance systems to help avert a future backlog of expensive private infrastructure repairs and reduce threats to the public system to which the private systems connect?  See responses...

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Question 10: 

If you have the funding for 10 additional positions in county government, to which department(s) would you allocate them?  See responses...

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