Jack Malek announces run for Shoreline City Council
Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Jack Malek will be running for the Shoreline council seat currently held by John Ramsdell, who is not running for reelection.
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| Jack Malek |
I am thrilled to announce my candidacy for Shoreline City Council!
For the past 23 years, I’ve been proud to call Shoreline home—raising my family here, building my career as a local Realtor, and serving our community in various leadership roles.
From my time on the Council of Neighborhoods, Richmond Beach Community Association, ShoreLake Arts Council, Shoreline Community College Board, and Breakfast Rotary, Shoreline Chamber of Commerce, and my eight years as a Planning Commissioner, I’ve worked to strengthen the very fabric of our city.
Now, I’m ready to take the next step in service to our community.
As a moderate, I believe in balanced, thoughtful growth—ensuring Shoreline thrives with smart development while preserving the character that makes our city special. I am committed to fostering economic opportunities, supporting local businesses, and making sure our community remains vibrant and welcoming for all.
This campaign is about working together to build a strong future for Shoreline. I’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and concerns—because our city’s success is a team effort.
I look forward to the road ahead and hope to earn your support. Stay tuned for ways to get involved, and let’s make a difference together!
With gratitude,
Jack Malek
Candidate for Shoreline City Council
As a moderate, I believe in balanced, thoughtful growth—ensuring Shoreline thrives with smart development while preserving the character that makes our city special. I am committed to fostering economic opportunities, supporting local businesses, and making sure our community remains vibrant and welcoming for all.
This campaign is about working together to build a strong future for Shoreline. I’d love to hear your thoughts, ideas, and concerns—because our city’s success is a team effort.
I look forward to the road ahead and hope to earn your support. Stay tuned for ways to get involved, and let’s make a difference together!
With gratitude,
Jack Malek
Candidate for Shoreline City Council
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7 comments:
For a very long time, even though I did not personally know Jack and disagreed with him some issues, I had the opportunity to have a phone call with him and changed my mind. He is willing to spend the time with someone, listen to their views, explain his own, in a civil and constructive discussion.
Show us you will develop Shoreline in a way that adds mixed income housing that is actually built with care and a long term vision. Many of the new buildings are already falling apart and their design is nothing to be proud off. Only bring in developers who will build durable and desirable living for Shoreline residents into the future and I will consider supporting you.
Will any of that "balanced thoughtful growth" be in your neighborhood of Richmond Beach? Or will those of us who live east of I5 continue to be the sole recipients of the benefits of unrestrained development, the removal of our tree canopy and the dismantling of our neighborhoods?
Which new buildings are falling apart? With a little research, maybe this info could be used to weed out some future subpar construction?
The unrestrained development isn't just east of I-5. It's more accurate to say that it's east of Linden too.
All we've seen the past few years is growth for the sake of growth. Shoreline City Council is packing people into this city, adding traffic to our roads as well as rental housing tenants. These enormous new complexes receive tax breaks and don't pay their fair share of the property taxes which fund our schools, libraries, and parks, all while they make big demands on public services. Then the state cries poverty, and pushes to tax homeowners out of their homes so that the land can be redeveloped into even more multi unit complexes with, you guessed it, more unsustainable tax breaks.
We need a candidate who will actually stand up to all the new Soviet-style tenements being stuffed into every nook and cranny.
Maybe it's time for Shoreline to have "district" representation so each area of the city has someone on the council - it feels that for the almost 30 years I've lived here most of our elected government is from the west side.
Switching to district seats for the Shoreline City Council, somewhat ironically, requires approval of the council.
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