For Mayor · City of St. Petersburg

A city that works for everyone. On day one.

Daniel Park built the software St. Petersburg uses to run itself. Now he's running to rebuild the parts that don't.

Daniel Park headshot
Photo Daniel Park · St. Pete Pier, March 2026
2
Startups built in St. Pete
311
City service he rebuilt
12K
New units in 4 years (plan)
100%
Body-cam transparency

Built two startups. Chose this city.

Daniel Park built two startups before he turned 40, both in St. Pete. He chose this city; he didn't inherit it. He's running for mayor because St. Pete has spent a decade growing without a plan for the people the growth is supposed to serve. As a civic-tech founder, Daniel built the software the city now uses to manage 311 requests.

A serious treatment of each policy area.

Three priorities. Twelve positions. Every claim cited. Read the summary in two minutes — or take the full PDF to your next neighborhood meeting.

Build 12,000 new units in four years. Make the math work.

St. Pete added 14,000 jobs and 3,200 housing units between 2020 and 2024. That gap is the rent crisis. The plan: upzone the right corridors, fast-track permits, and put public land back to work.

Position 1

Upzone the four corridors

34th Street North, Central Avenue west of 16th, MLK Jr. Street North, and 4th Street between 22nd Ave and the Gateway. Mixed-use up to six stories by-right; affordable-housing density bonus up to nine.

Position 2

Permit turnaround under 60 days

We rebuilt 311 in 18 months. We can rebuild the permitting office in 12. Every permit gets a public timer; every delay over 60 days gets a written explanation.

Position 3

Public land to public housing trust

Inventory every parcel the city owns. Transfer development-suitable parcels to the St. Pete Housing Trust. Build deeply-affordable units the private market won't.

Position 4

Right-to-counsel for tenants in eviction

Funded out of the affordable-housing trust fund. Pinellas County evicts more renters per capita than any other Florida county. Counsel cuts evictions by 77%.

Body-cam transparency. Civilian oversight with teeth. Mental-health response.

Trust between residents and SPPD has to be earned every year. Three commitments: every interaction on camera, every complaint reviewed by civilians with subpoena power, and mental-health calls answered by clinicians.

Position 1

100% body-cam, 30-day public release

Every patrol officer, every shift. Use-of-force footage public within 30 days unless a court order extends the timeline. Redactions standardized and logged.

Position 2

Civilian Police Review Board with subpoena power

Charter amendment establishing a CPRB that can compel testimony, review internal-affairs investigations, and recommend discipline. Currently the board can recommend nothing.

Position 3

Mental-health response unit, citywide

Co-responder model with Boley Centers staffed 24/7. Dispatch routes mental-health and unhoused-services calls to clinicians, not patrol. Pilot data from 2024 shows 71% diversion.

Position 4

Beat officers back on the beat

Rotate 25% of patrol back to walking and bike beats in the eight neighborhoods residents asked for. Familiar faces, not unfamiliar cruisers.

Permits, complaints, payments, services — all mobile-first.

If you can renew your driver's license on your phone in 90 seconds, you should be able to pay your water bill, pull a fence permit, and check on a 311 ticket the same way. He'll lead the rebuild.

Position 1

One St. Pete account, every service

Single sign-on for water, parks, permits, 311, libraries, parking. Currently it's 11 separate logins. Built on the same identity stack the civic-tech office shipped in 2023.

Position 2

Open the budget API

Every line of the city budget queryable, exportable, and embeddable. Residents shouldn't have to FOIA a spreadsheet. Public dashboards for procurement, ARPA spend, and council priorities.

Position 3

Permit fees by progressive scale

Homeowner pulling a $400 fence permit shouldn't pay the same flat $185 as a developer pulling a $40M condo permit. Tier fees by project value and waive them for owner-occupied repairs under $5K.

Position 4

Procurement set-asides for local tech

St. Pete has the talent. Twenty percent of city IT contracts under $500K reserved for St. Pete-headquartered firms. We grow the bench while we ship the work.

Council members. Civic groups. Labor. Business.

A coalition that doesn't usually agree, agreeing on this.

"Daniel is the rare candidate who already understands how a city actually runs at the line-of-code level. He'll fix the parts that don't work and protect the parts that do."

— Brandi Gabbard
City Council, District 2

"We've sat across the table from Daniel for three budget cycles. He reads the spreadsheet. He shows the math. St. Pete needs that in the mayor's office."

— Pinellas Realtors Association
Endorsed · Government Affairs Committee

"Our members live and work in this city. Daniel's housing plan is the first one in a decade with the math attached. We're with him."

— UNITE HERE Local 362
Hospitality workers · St. Pete & Pinellas

"He didn't run because somebody told him it was his turn. He ran because the 311 system he built showed him every place this city was failing its people."

— Rev. Watson Haynes II
Pinellas County Urban League · President emeritus

"Daniel Park is the kind of executive talent this city has been trying to recruit for twenty years. We don't have to recruit him. He's already here."

— St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce
Endorsed · Board of Governors

"I've watched him stand up the civic-tech office, deliver under budget, and keep his promises. That's the resume we should expect from a mayor."

— Deborah Figgs-Sanders
City Council, District 5

"Climate, transit, housing — Daniel treats them like one problem because they are. That's the leadership St. Pete needs for the next decade."

— Sierra Club · Tampa Bay Group
Endorsed · Executive Committee

"We've never endorsed in a mayoral primary before. We're endorsing now."

— St. Pete Tenants Union
First-ever mayoral endorsement

Resources for working journalists.

Press kit, releases, recent coverage, and a real human at press@danielparkforstpete.com.

Portraits (hi-res)

4 headshots · 3000×3750px · ZIP · 8.2 MB
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Logos & brand guide

SVG, PNG, EPS + 6-page brand guide PDF · ZIP · 2.1 MB
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Bio + Q&A

Long-form bio, 25-question Q&A · PDF · 412 KB
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Full policy library

All 12 positions, citations, footnotes · PDF · 2.8 MB
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Press releases

May 12, 2026

Park Releases 80-Page Housing Plan, Calls for 12,000 New Units by 2030

The plan, prepared with input from St. Pete Tenants Union, the Chamber, and three local CDCs, would upzone four corridors and rebuild the permitting office.

May 5, 2026

Civilian Oversight Charter Amendment Earns 600 Signatures in One Weekend

Park's volunteer team collected the signatures at three community block parties. The amendment would grant the Civilian Police Review Board subpoena power.

April 28, 2026

Statement on the FY2027 City Budget Proposal

Daniel Park, candidate for mayor: "The current administration's budget protects every line item except the ones residents actually use."

April 21, 2026

Park, UNITE HERE Local 362 Announce Hospitality Worker Housing Initiative

Joint proposal would dedicate 20% of new mixed-use development on the Gulfport-to-Downtown corridor to workers earning under 80% AMI.

April 14, 2026

On the Closure of the St. Pete Free Clinic Mobile Unit

"This is a budget choice, not a budget necessity. Restoring this funding will be in my first 100 days."

April 3, 2026

Park Files for Mayor of St. Petersburg

Civic-tech founder Daniel Park filed campaign paperwork with the Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections today.

Priya Ramachandran
Communications Director · Park for St. Pete
press@danielparkforstpete.com · (727) 555-0140

Where the campaign will be.

Town halls, debates, listening sessions, and ribbon cuttings. Press credentials honored at every public event.

MAY
18
6:30 PM

Housing Plan Town Hall — Childs Park

Enoch Davis Center · 1111 18th Ave S

Open Q&A on the 80-page housing plan. Spanish interpretation provided. Childcare on-site.

MAY
22
7:00 PM

St. Pete Mayoral Primary Debate

Palladium Theater · 253 5th Ave N

Co-hosted by Tampa Bay Times and WUSF. All four primary candidates confirmed.

MAY
28
10:00 AM

Industry-Coach-Apprentice Roundtable

Pinellas Technical College · St. Pete Campus

ICA at Pinellas Tech: civic-tech apprenticeship pipeline. Open to working journalists.

JUN
2
11:00 AM

Ribbon Cutting — Deuces Live Innovation Hub

22nd Street S · The Deuces

Park joins Deuces Live to mark the opening of the small-business co-working space he helped fund.

JUN
8
6:00 PM

Public Safety Listening Session

Lake Vista Community Center · 1401 62nd Ave S

Direct conversation on body-cam transparency and the proposed CPRB amendment. SPPD invited.

JUN
15
9:00 AM

Walk the District — Historic Uptown

Meet at Black Crow Coffee · 722 2nd St N

Two-mile neighborhood walk with the candidate. Coffee on us. Wear comfortable shoes.