Collier County Commission, District 2
County commissioners set the county budget and property-tax (millage) rate, adopt land-use and zoning rules, and oversee county services such as roads, parks, libraries, fire/EMS and utilities. Term: 4 years.
Partly verified. Either the November opponent could not be confirmed from available sources, or only a few positions are documented. Confirm the full candidate list on your county sample ballot; unknown positions are shown as such.
How we verified who is on the ballot
Cody Davis listed as a qualified candidate for the Nov. 3 ballot (Ballot Brief snippet); party and opponents not verified. District 4 (Daniel Kowal, ~71%) was decided in the August universal primary.
Candidates
Report an error ↗Cody Davis
Qualified candidate for County Commission District 2 on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot.
Chris Hall
Republican incumbent elected in 2022 with more than 70 percent of the vote. His campaign lists fiscal responsibility, workforce housing, constitutional rights, transparency, education and law enforcement as issues and cites priority-based budgeting he says saved the county over $100 million (Sparker's Soapbox candidat…
Side-by-side on the major issues
Each row is a statement. The chips show how each candidate's stated positions or record relate to that statement. Expand a row to read the evidence and sources. "No public position found" means we could not find a statement or record on the topic, not that the candidate has none.
| Issue | Cody Davis Jeffersonian Party of Florida | Chris Hall Republican |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes & spendingCutting taxes should be a top priority, even if it means less government spending on services. | No public position found | Strongly agrees· based on record At the county's final budget hearing on Sept. 18, 2026 Hall voted with a 3-2 majority to cut the Conservation Collier land-acquisition tax, which let the board reach the rolled-back rate and avoid an increase of about $13 a year for the owner of a home taxed at $400,000. He had proposed reducing the conservation millage at an earlier hearing. All five commissioners then adopted the FY2027 budget of more than $3 billion. |
| Property taxesFlorida should eliminate or sharply reduce homestead property taxes, even if local governments must cut services or find other revenue. | No public position found | No public position found |
| Housing affordabilityGovernment should do more to make housing affordable (subsidies, zoning changes, rent measures). | Leans agree· stated position Says developers' affordable-housing commitments must actually be delivered and opposes reducing those obligations without accountability. | Mixed / neutral· stated position Says he will ensure teachers, firefighters and service workers have affordable living options and cites more than 400 affordable units approved in 2024, but says he favors private-sector affordable housing initiatives rather than government intervention and opposed higher density in North Naples. In Feb. 2024 he joined a unanimous vote advancing a developer's application for county money to build affordable housing. |
| Environment & waterProtecting water quality, conservation land and climate resilience should take priority even if it slows development or raises costs. | Strongly agrees· stated position Would restore Conservation Collier funds diverted in 2023 and put the program in the county charter so changes need voter approval. | Strongly disagrees· based on record Hall voted on Sept. 18, 2026 to reduce the dedicated tax for Conservation Collier, cutting the land-preservation program's annual collections from about $35 million to about $30 million in order to hold the overall county tax rate down. Commissioners Rick LoCastro and Burt Saunders voted against the cut; Dan Kowal and William McDaniel joined Hall. |
| Growth & developmentGrowth and development should be slowed or more tightly regulated (higher impact fees, density limits, stronger local control). | Strongly agrees· stated position Says development should be a partnership with the community and opposes 'chaotic and unsustainable overdevelopment' and favoritism in land-use decisions. | Leans agree· stated position His campaign lists preventing 'reckless over-development' as an issue, and his list of first-term actions says he opposed higher housing density to reduce traffic in North Naples (2025) and was the only commissioner to vote against a District 2 high-density apartment project (2023). |
| Crime & policingCriminal penalties should be tougher and police funding increased, rather than emphasizing reform and rehabilitation. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position Lists law enforcement among his issues, saying the county must support officers and is committed to preserving law and order. |
| VeteransExpanding VA services and veterans' benefits should be a top priority. | No public position found | Leans agree· stated position His campaign lists taking Collier County's concerns about a veterans nursing home to Washington, D.C., in 2025 among his first-term actions. |
Where they sit on the map
Each candidate is placed by the average of their documented stances. It is a summary of the table above, not an extra judgment.
How the axes are computed
Each axis is the average of a candidate's coded stances (+2 to −2) on a fixed set of statements, so it comes straight from the documented positions and nothing else. A candidate needs at least three documented statements on an axis to be placed.
Economic issues (toward "Smaller government (lower taxes, less spending)"): Taxes & spending (agree), Property taxes (agree), Health care (disagree), Housing affordability (disagree), Property insurance (disagree), Energy & utilities (disagree), Social Security & Medicare (disagree), Teacher and staff pay (disagree).
Social & legal issues (toward "Conservative side of the statements"): Immigration (agree), Abortion (disagree), Guns (disagree), Education & school choice (agree), Elections & voting (disagree), Crime & policing (agree), Gender identity laws (agree), Marijuana (disagree), Environment & water (disagree), Trump administration (agree), Library and classroom materials (agree), School safety approach (agree).
| Candidate | Economic issues | Social & legal issues |
|---|---|---|
| Cody Davis | not enough data | not enough data |
| Chris Hall | not enough data | not enough data |
Other issues the candidates have raised
Priorities each candidate has brought up on their own, beyond the major-issue list above.
Cody Davis
No additional issues found in public statements as of the last data review.
Chris Hall
No additional issues found in public statements as of the last data review.