Controversial measures undertaken by his administration include reassessing the sustainable growth tier structure of the county in order to change which farmland was required to be in an agricultural preservation program. The structure was put in place in 2012 by County Executive Ken Ulman in 2013.
The administration's contentious decisions included revisiting the county's sustainable growth tier system to alter the rules for participating farmland in an agricultural preservation program. The system was introduced in 2012 by County Executive Ken Ulman in 2013.