Transcript Document 7927441

Lessons From the Field:
Integrating Health in Planning
How built environment involvement by
local health departments promotes
healthier communities
CPHA-N Conference Davis, CA
Land Use 101 Workshop March 13th, 2008
Jeffery Rosenhall, MA
Mission:
California Center
for Physical Activity
To create opportunities for incidental, everyday
physical activity by connecting partners to
active living resources and helping develop
more walkable and bikeable communities.
What We’ll Cover…
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What role public health can play
II.
What information and resources are
available to local public health
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How to identify local and statewide
opportunities for involvement in the
built environment and active
communities
LPHBE: Identified Need
• Since the 90’s: Active Community
Environments (ACEs), SR2S, Healthy
Transportation Network, WCW’s, etc.
• Informal CDHS Public Health and the Built
Environment work group (aka-”PHBE”)
• Follow-up discussion after 2004 CA Center
for PA conference
• Result: Pilot project in 2005 - trainings
planned, mini-grant funds secured, and
teleconferences scheduled
Bringing Public Health Back
• Historic role in regulating the built environment,
before planning became a separate/distinct
discipline. (Public Welfare and Police Powers)
• Public health uses epi data that is compelling to
planners and local officials and PH has capacity in
public outreach. (Injury, toxicology, convening)
• Newly-invigorated county PH departments can be
important advocates for local planning initiatives
and activities. (Nutrition, PA, IP, EH, etc.)
Role
I. Local Public Health
benefits
• LPHDs have community-wide
impact, important “ground level” work.
• Already working on related topics
including: injury prevention, physical
activity, nutrition, environmental health,
obesity prevention, active aging, etc.
• Motivation, strategic planning, and
evaluation.
Role
What Local Planners Need from PH
• Many planning and public works departments have begun
to work on this issue – if not – they are interested in
doing so. (Go “carrots” – not “sticks”)
• What planner are looking for:
info and assistance – not more red tape
• How to help them:
meet, share your concerns, brainstorm solutions
• How to frame your expertise:
data, social justice, livability, grant opportunities?
Role
Advocating for Safe, Healthy
Spaces + Places
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Violence prevention (CPTED)
Traffic calming (interventions that work)
Trees/open space (light, stress redux)
Compact development (reduce commutes)
Ped/Bike infrastructure (on-street and off)
Worksite wellness (programs and the building)
Child development (autonomy)
Active Aging (senior mobility)
Local Health (+ built environment) Goal
Change land use and transportation practices and policies to
support active community environments
As an alternative to status quo auto=oriented sprawling
development
Role
In other words…
create safe, walkable communities
that will entice residents to be
physically active as part of
everyday life!
Community Design Policies Work!
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services
concluded:
• Community-scale policies & design are effective:
– Zoning for compact, mixed-use development
– Transit-oriented development
– Policies related to street design & connectivity
• Street-scale policies & design are effective:
– Traffic calming
– Street lighting
– Improving street crossings
Role
II. BE Resources
• National: CDC, APHA, NACCHO, USGBC/LEED,
Smart Growth America, Planetizen, CNU, etc.
• Statewide: CDPH/LPHBE, Local PH associations,
PHI/PHLP, CPEHN, TCE, etc.
• Locally: LPHD colleagues, P/B Advocacy groups,
committees and commissions, neighborhood
associations, etc.
• Consultants: Many varied organizations – Alta,
EDAW, Fehr & Peers, LGC, MIG, etc.
• Educational Institutions: Colleges and Universities,
University Extension, speaker series, symposia, etc.
Resources
BE Reading list
• California Planning (3rd Ed.), Fulton, W.
• Death and Life of American Cities, Jacobs,
J.
• Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Frumkin
et al.
• Better Not Bigger, Fodor, E.
• How Cities Work, Marshall, A.
And…
• Divorce Your Car, Alvord, K.
• The Tipping Point, Gladwell, M.
Resources
CDPH-sponsored training
• Regional LPHBE trainings statewide:
NorCal (Oakland & Sacramento) and SoCal (Los Angeles)
• Trainer:
Tina Zenzola, Safe and Healthy Communities Consulting
• LPHBE 101 Content:
-Jargon and terminology (planning, transportation)
-Walkable Communities 101
(traffic calming, etc.)
-Walk Audit
(localized expertise)
-Strategic Points for Public Health Intervention
-Public Health Department roles (presentations, etc.)
-Group exercises
(planning a neighborhood)
• LPHBE 201 Content: specific plans, working with
developers, design review, case studies, etc.
Resources
PHLP Tech Assist
• Trainings: General Plans and Zoning,
Economic Development and Redevelopment
• Seminar/Symposium Facilitation
• On-line resources and toolkits:
www.healthyplanning.org
• Teleconferences: bimonthly
R.S.V.P. to [email protected]
Resources
III. Local Planning and Policies
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General plan updates
Zoning policy changes (FBC?)
Area Specific Plans/Master plans
District designations: Historic, Preservation
Transportation plans: B/P master, corridor
Regional Blueprint planning
Infill, Parking, Interchanges, etc.
Opportunities
Local PH activities…
• PH BE projects:
-Strategic planning
-Trainings
-Guest speakers
-White paper/brief
-Walk audits
-Presentations to planning
commissions and elected officials
-Working groups
-Community photography -Involvement in General Plan
updates (i.e. – “Comp plans”)
-Radio/print media coverage
-Grand Rounds presentations
-W2SD/B2WD, resource materials
Opportunities
PH Project Examples
• Riverside – Emergency Response and Street Design
Workshop, Designing Healthy Communities Forum,
comment on new county building (Perris)
• San Mateo – Interactive educational workshop with
“Planning 101,” walking audit, and “mini-design
charrette” for Camino Real.
• Mendocino – Health Checklist for New
Development, Lifestyles Action Team, working at
Planning Dept.
Opportunities
More PH Project Examples
• Glenn –HHAT, housing development assessment tool
created with community input
• Kings – Planner’s roundtables, facilitated by a
planner and PH staff, 4 sessions provided
presentations and discussion
• Alameda – Intensive training in BE 101 for staff
incl. brown bag noon seminars on TOD, LU,
Community involvement, etc.
Opportunities
And More Project Examples
• Solano – Health Summit, Support of TOD near
central train station
• Sacramento – Presentations to the Planning
Commission, involved in re-writing the Human
Services Element of the county General Plan
• Contra Costa – Prepared strategic plan with BE
principles throughout, drafted a white paper used
for region-wide collaborative efforts
• Shasta – Development proposal health checklist,
trained staff to conduct walk audits
Opportunities
Broader Policies/Programs that
Have Local Reach
• SAFETEA-LU (Federal): Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity Act
• CA/US SR2S: Increase Student mobility
• WN4S: Senior mobility
• School-Siting: CCSP/CDPH, Where’s the school?
• CT CBTP: Community-based planning
• CT EJ: Environmental Justice
• CT BTA: Bicycle funding
Opportunities
The SR2S Initiative
• For children who already walk and bike
– Protect them
– Encourage them
• To enable more children to safely walk and bike
- Adequate and appropriate bike and pedestrian facilities
- Adult supervision along routes (walking school buses)
• Ultimately – to create places for everybody
to safely walk and bike
• CA and US models
Opportunities
To promote safe accessible neighborhood
walking routes for older adults
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Activities: Assessment, strategic planning, promising
practices (walking groups, health information)
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Desired Outcomes: Build capacity: mobilize political
will (strengthen sense of community, raise awareness)
Opportunities
School Siting
Working with the California School Boards
Association, CA Dept. of Education and other
key partners
Then
Opportunities
Now
Jeffery Rosenhall, MA
Project Coordinator
California Center for Physical Activity
California Department of Public Health
916.552.9885
[email protected]
www.caphysicalactivity.org