Land use, economic development, and redevelopment policies offer a valuable set of tools to promote and enhance healthy communities. Local governments, private developers, and community groups can all work to create patterns of development that improve community health.
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With many shared goals and valuable resources to direct toward neighborhood revitalization efforts, public health and redevelopment agency staff make powerful allies.
This fact sheet is...
A community’s general plan can go a long way toward creating healthier neighborhoods – increasing opportunities to buy fresh foods, making it easier to walk and bike throughout the day, reducing...
This article in the Community Food Security Coalition News connects the dots between land use planning and healthier communities, and is...
The MTC is requiring Bay Area cities and counties to adopt complete streets resolutions in order to be eligible for One Bay Area Grant (OBAG) funding. NPLAN developed this model resolution for...
All across America, there is a movement afoot to build “complete streets” that allow people to get around safely, even when they aren't inside a car. Conventional street design promotes traffic...
Bicycling is a great way to get around, letting children and adults get healthy physical activity while easily traveling a few miles. When people make bicycling or other physical activity part of...
Local government leaders are in a unique position to promote healthy eating and active living in their communities by supporting community gardens. Community gardens are places where neighbors...
This fact sheet, which is also available in Spanish, provides talking points and information to use when advocating for healthier street design.
Complete streets are designed and operated...
Streets are key public spaces, and often make up a major proportion of the land in a given town or area. Across America, streets are frequently built with the sole goal of moving cars, with...
This fact sheet answers common questions about NPLAN’s Model Healthy Food Zone Ordinance, which was...
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