Mike Judge
Council Member Mike Judge was elected to the City Council in November 2010.Â
Council Member Judge is a Retired Los Angeles Police Officer having honorably served the citizens of Los Angeles for 31years. During his career in Law Enforcement Council Member Judge served in various units of the LAPD spending the majority of his career in the San Fernando Valley. He also is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States Army 1981-1985 and California Army National Guard 1986-1996.
Prior to his election, Council Member Judge served as a member of Simi Valley Neighborhood Council Executive Board No. 3, an advisory body to the City Council on development projects, resident concerns, and other matters on which the City Council desires input.Â
Council Member Judge serves on a number of City, County, and Statewide committees, including The Public Safety Committee for the League of California Cities, the Ventura County Transportation Committee, the Southern California Association of Governments Transportation and Regional Council, the Affordable Housing Subcommittee, the Farmers Insurance Building Red Team, the Landscape Guidelines and Standards Review Committee, Simi Valley Arts Commission, the Simi Valley Council on Aging, the Simi Valley Community Task Force on Heroin Prevention, and the Task Force on Homelessness, and currently serves as a member of the Simi Valley Library Board of Trustees. Council Member Judge is also the City Council’s representative to the League of California Cities Channel Counties Division and the Association of Ventura County Cities and is the alternate representative to the Ventura Council of Governments.Â
Born in Encino, Council Member Judge came to Simi Valley as an infant and has called Simi Valley home ever since. His family’s roots in the community predate the City’s incorporation, going back to the 1950’s when his grandparents settled here. Council Member Judge and his wife Sarit have three children.
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Accomplishments
On our City Council, nothing happens in a vacuum. If a Council member has an idea for changing a city ordinance or proposing a new one, they are encouraged to bring it up under item 10B on the Council’s agenda. Here are examples of three Items that I have brought up and successfully moved through Council and have been completed or codified into our codes.
In 2018, the Simi Valley Free Clinic was defrauded during its fundraising campaign, which would have enabled it to move to a new and improved facility. I proposed that the yearly Waste Management grant money the City is obligated to disperse to qualified non-profits be consolidated over 3 years and directed to the free clinics’ efforts to build a new and better place. The Council agreed, and it passed. Now we have the best Free clinic in the entire County, maybe the State.
In 2016, Citizens were complaining that the RV parking codes the city had on the books were unfair, arbitrary, and confusing. I reviewed our code at the time and agreed. I moved to change them; it only took 7 years. Still, we finally got it done, the most significant change was before the change the City required you to park an RV on only the garage side of your home and if you didn’t have room on that side of your house too bad even if you an acre on the non-garage side now you can choose on what side you park your RV on your Property.
Since 2015 the Governor’s office and the State Legislature have been on a mission to dismantle California’s suburban single-family residence zoning throughout our State under the guise of a manufactured housing crisis, which, in my opinion, was caused by stripping local municipalities of their redevelopment agencies in 2011. So now in the Golden State, single-family residence zoning exists in name only.
I saw that this was going to be a problem for our City when a large apartment complex was approved, despite having inadequate parking.
Now the City has a neighborhood parking ordinance because I asked for it. It is modeled on other Cities in our State. A neighborhood must come together and petition the City to require a parking permit for residents to park on the streets within their neighborhood, ensuring that only residents are parking on the streets in their neighborhood.