Patricia Feghali
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Patricia Feghali is running for election to the Santa Fe City Council to represent District 1 in New Mexico. She is on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Feghali completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in Santa Fe, New Mexico (2025)
General election
The general election will occur on November 4, 2025.
General election for Santa Fe City Council District 1
Patricia Feghali, David Montoya, and Katherine Rivera are running in the general election for Santa Fe City Council District 1 on November 4, 2025.
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Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Patricia Feghali completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Feghali's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Pat grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and attended 12 years of Catholic school before she left for New York City (BA, Columbia University) and Minneapolis (JD, University of Minnesota). She then retured to Cincinnati to work and get another degree (Master of Community Planning, University of Cincinnati). She began spending time in Santa Fe over twenty-five years ago and moved here with her family in 2019.
Pat has worked and volunteered in a number of capacities, including serving as a staff attorney for the Ohio Justice and Policy Center, a small business owner, a government employee, volunteering as a neighborhood council member, and as an organizer for community events.
Pat is also a musician, cyclist, hiker, and policy nerd, and runs The Urbanist “Book” Club, a reading-optional book club that talks about urban planning ideas.
Pat is grateful to call Santa Fe home and is passionate about community. She combines experience, knowledge, and desire to make Santa Fe a city that works for all of its residents.- Truly Affordable Housing: A city should be able to house all of its residents. Santa Fe has an opportunity to not only house the people who are currently unhoused but to provide housing for the many people who work in Santa Fe but commute in from elsewhere because we do not have enough places to live that they can afford. We can do this by building more infill housing at every income level, building more affordable housing, and by changing our shelter model to better serve the people who need emergency and longer-term shelter. I think that pallet shelters are a good step towards this, and that Santa Fe needs to continue to explore non-congregate shelter options that will serve the people who are in need of housing.
- Sustainability: Santa Fe is the capital of one of the sunniest states in the country. We have traditional building methods that are amazingly energy efficient. With these two assets combined, we can and should be a leader in renewable energy. We should prioritize building accessible, energy efficient homes that use renewable energy to make our homes more sustainable long term. Santa Fe should also continue to excel in water conservation, and improve our stormwater management and transportation options. Santa Fe also needs to be a place where people can get around without driving, which means we need to improve our transit and connectivity.
- Housing and Land Use: Santa Fe is in the middle of updating our General Plan (which hasn’t been updated since 1999) and our Land Development Code. This is an amazing opportunity to make it easier to build more housing in our city in ways that make sense and benefit current homeowners, renters, and future residents. This is also an opportunity to make it easier (or possible) to thoughtfully allow more of the non-housing buildings and amenities that would serve our district and our city, like neighborhood businesses, child care centers, and recreation opportunities.
Santa Fe is a special place, and we can preserve the things that make it so amazing while also planning for the future and accommodating current and future needs. I believe I have the knowledge and experience to help get us to a future that works for all of us.
I believe it is very beneficial for Councilors to have previous experience in government because otherwise they spend a lot of time figuring out the process instead of being able to focus on the issues.
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See also
2025 Elections
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