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Design for Health
Carissa Schively Slotterback
APA Presentation
Design for Health: Strategies for Addressing Health
in Local Plans, Policies, and Projects
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Presentation Overview
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Overview of Design for
Health
II. Health Impact
Assessments
IV. Example Plans and
Guidelines
V. Presentations by
Partner Communities
VI. Q&A
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III. Example HIAs
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Project Staff
• Research Faculty
– Ann Forsyth, Cornell
– Kevin Krizek, U. Colorado
– Carissa Schively Slotterback, U. Minnesota
• Coordinators
– Amanda Johnson, Research Fellow, U. Pennsylvania
– Aly Pennucci, Research Assistant/Coordinator, U. Minnesota
• Research support
– Karen Roof, PhD Student, U. Colorado
– Ashley Miller, Sutee Anantsuksomsri, Research Assistants, Cornell
– Joanne Richardson, Web
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Presenters
• James Lehnhoff, AICP
– City of Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan Update
• Michaela Ahern, AICP, LEED AP
– City of Bloomington Alternative Transportation
Plan and Health Impact Assessment
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Project Overview
• Project initiated out of interest in connections between
built environment and health
• Funded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Takes advantage of 2008 legislative deadline for
metropolitan area comprehensive plans
• Built on work by Design Center/Active Communities
Transportation (ACT) Research Group examining active
living and food environments—adds a range of other
issues
• July 2006 through June 2008
• Separate grants given to technical assistance provider
and to 19 cities/counties
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Project Participants
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Accessibility
Air quality
Climate change
Environmental and
housing quality
Food
Health facility access
Mental health
Noise
Physical activity
Safety
Social capital
Water quality
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Metropolitan Design Center
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Core Health Topics
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Planning affects numerous
health issues
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Comprehensive planning
represents an opportunity to
address health
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Plan implementation can further
address health
• Zoning ordinances
• Design guidelines
• Capital improvements
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Connecting Planning and Health
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Metropolitan Council
Requirements 2008
Topics
• Accessibility
• Air Quality
• Environmental and
Housing Quality
• Food
• Mental Health
• Physical Activity
• Social Capital
• Safety (crime & traffic)
• Water Quality
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Land Use Plan
Future land use
Housing plan
Resource Protection
Transportation
Traffic Analysis Zone (TAZ) Allocation
Highway & roads plan
Bike & pedestrian plan
Special traffic situations
Transit plan for facilities & service
Aviation Plan
Water Resources
Wastewater & sewer plan
Surface water management plan
Water supply plan
Parks & Open Space
Regional parks and open space
Optional Elements
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Mental
PA
Safety
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Food
Env.
Hous.g
Access
Future land use
Connections Between
Health Topics and
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Land Use Plan
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Highway & roads
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Transit plan
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Aviation Plan
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Water Resources
Wastewater & sewer
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Surface water
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Water supply plan
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Reg. Parks and O.S.
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Health in Planning Policy
Connecting Planning and Health
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Four general approaches
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Comprehensive plan
update
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Corrective/Selective
Amendments
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Revised Codes or
Ordinances
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Separate Healthrelated Plans
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• Events—talks, feedback sessions,
boot camps
• Research summaries (key
questions)— summarize fast-moving
and contradictory evidence
• Information sheets—model planning
and ordinance language/cases
• Case studies of existing plans
• Health impact assessments—
three planning-oriented tools
• Image resources and PPTs
• Planning and health links
• Plan review checklists
• One-on-one technical assistance
• Web site
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Design for Health Activities and Tools
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Health Impact Assessment
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Developed HIA tools
tailored to planners
• Preliminary Assessment
(checklist)
• Rapid Assessment
(participatory workshop)
• Threshold Analysis
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Detailed guidebooks and
training workshops assist
planners in using tools
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HIA: Carver County
Preliminary Checklist
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Assesses significance
of project, plan, or policy
in terms of its size and
scope
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Considers whether
certain health
thresholds are met
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HIA: Carver County
• Preliminary Checklist
– Abbreviated review of proposed transloading
facility in response to citizen petition for
environmental review
– Helped identify key health concerns with
project
– Will likely do rapid assessment if project
moves forward
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HIA: Bloomington
• Workshop-based health impact
assessment for proposed bicycle trail in
powerline corridor
• Worked with existing advisory committee
• Identified and evaluated potential health
impacts
• Results integrated into Alternative
Transportation Plan
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HIA: Ramsey
• Most detailed HIA tool
• Uses evidence-based measures to assess
health impacts
• Used by Ramsey to evaluate existing
conditions to inform comprehensive plan
update
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40.3 % are within 400 m of a trail (49.32 % w/in 600 m)
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HIA: Ramsey
Current achievements, health goals, and
policy directions (how to get there)
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Plan: Marshall
• City of Marshall, in rural Minnesota
• Prepared Pedestrian and Bikeway Plan: A
Safe and Healthy Marshall
• The lens of health highlighted issues such
as access to food and parks
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Plan: Carver County
• Included public health element in 2030
Comprehensive Plan Update
• Significant health content in other parts of
plan – Land Use, Parks and Trails, Aging,
Transportation
• Planning process engaged planning and
public health staff
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Goals and strategies related to physical activity,
social equity, mental health, air quality, water
quality, food access, general access, and
environment/housing
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Implementation: Eden Prairie
• Site planning
guidelines to
implement
comprehensive
plan
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numerous health
issues
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Presenters
• James Lehnhoff, AICP
– City of Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan Update
• Michaela Ahern, AICP, LEED AP
– City of Bloomington Alternative Transportation
Plan and Health Impact Assessment
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Arden Hills
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9.4 square miles
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~10,000 people
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~14,000 jobs
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10 miles from downtown
Minneapolis and St. Paul
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A city divided by freeways,
fragmented neighborhoods,
and few connected trails, and
newly opened land for
development
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Arden Hills
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Approach:
• 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update
• Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP)
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Arden Hills
City of Arden Hills
• Comp Plan Update Process and Tools
– Staff involvement  engineering, public works, parks,
community development
– Parks, Trails, and Recreation Committee (PTRC),
Planning Commission, and City Council work
sessions
– Active living website and research summaries
– Community workshops
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Arden Hills
Arden Hills Workshop & Game
Created by HKGi, Inc
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Arden Hills
City of Arden Hills
• 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update
– Active Living Chapter
– Active Living Principles and Components in
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Environmental Conservation and Sustainability
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Arden Hills
City of Arden Hills
• Twin Cities Army Ammunition
Plant (TCAAP)
• 585 acres
• Mixed Use Development
• Potential for 3,000 residents
• Many challenges
• Ongoing project
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Arden Hills
City of Arden Hills
• Results
– City Approved 2030 Comprehensive Plan
– TCAAP redevelopment is ongoing
• Implementation
– Guiding Plan for the B2 District
– Adopted New Design Standards
– Becoming part of site plan review process
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Presenters
• James Lehnhoff, AICP
– City of Arden Hills Comprehensive Plan Update
• Michaela Ahern, AICP, LEED AP
– City of Bloomington Alternative Transportation
Plan and Health Impact Assessment
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Bloomington
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Four plan sections
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Planning context and
framework
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Vision and Values
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System Plan
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Implementation
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Bloomington
Technical Specifics
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Bloomington
Citizen Involvement
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Citizen Advisory Group
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Focus group meeting with targeted stakeholder groups
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Presentations before multiple City advisory groups (Traffic
and Transportation Advisory Commission, Parks, Arts, and
Recreation Commission, Advisory Board of Health)
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Public hearings before the Planning Commission and City
Council
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Bloomington
Health Impact Assessment
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Increased knowledge among
planners about health issues
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Refined, robust, and tested suite
of HIA tools tailored to planners
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Sample plans and ordinances that
serve as local and national models
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Evidence-based, health-oriented
2008 plans from partners
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Built collaborations
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Outcomes
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Summary
Overview of Design
for Health
II. Health Impact
Assessments
III. Example HIAs
IV. Example Plans and
Guidelines
V. Presentations by
Partner Communities
VI. Q&A
Carissa Schively Slotterback
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