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An Introduction to Land Use Planning for Food System Activists
This article connects the dots between land use planning and healthier communities, and is geared toward food system activists.
Changes in the WIC Food Packages: A Toolkit for Partnering with Neighborhood Stores
The selection of foods available through the WIC program recently changed for the first time in 35 years – a change that holds potential to transform the retail food landscape in low-income communities, where liquor stores often proliferate and grocery stores are few.
Complete Streets Talking Points
Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street. This factsheet provides talking points and information to use when advocating for healthier street design. Now available in Spanish, as well!
Create and Implement Healthy General Plans
How can public health advocates and city planners work together to create healthy, sustainable communities? This toolkit provides a progression of steps focused on the general plan, the key land use policy document for California cities and counties.
Economic Development and Redevelopment: A Toolkit on Land Use and Health
Economic Development and Redevelopment: A Toolkit on Land Use and Health, is a toolkit designed for nutrition and other public health advocates who need additional resources, beyond zoning and general plan revisions, to improve the food access in low-income neighborhoods and are seeking a fundamental, introductory understanding of the economic development and redevelopment tools available, their use, and how to effectively participate in decisions about their use.
Eight Steps to Get More Fruits and Vegetables Into Your Neighborhood
Do you live near a community garden? Does your neighborhood sell good-quality, low-cost fruits and vegetables? Is there a farmer's market in your neighborhood? If you answered "no" to any of these questions, your neighborhood is ready for some healthy changes. Learn the eight steps to follow to get more fruits and vegetables in your neighborhood with this helpful California-specific factsheet. Now available in Spanish, as well!
Establishing Land Use Protections for Community Gardens
Planning for Healthy Places, in collaboration with the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), has developed several model policies that complement the material in our toolkits. These model policy "packages" explain why land use policies are important for supporting and protecting community gardens and farmers' markets, and provide model general plan and zoning language to encourage these uses.
Establishing Land Use Protections for Farmers' Markets
Planning for Healthy Places, in collaboration with the National Policy & Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity (NPLAN), has developed several model policies that complement the material in our toolkits. These model policy "packages" explain why land use policies are important for supporting and protecting community gardens and farmers' markets, and provide model general plan and zoning language to encourage these uses.
Fat City? To Health With Planning
City planning has roots in public health: Early planning efforts were undertaken to stem the spread of infectious diseases. Over the past century, the two fields have drifted apart, each becoming more specialized. Public health shifted its focus from infectious diseases to the emerging epidemics in chronic diseases. Planners developed tools to create great places but
reduced their attention to public health.
For Planners and Public Health Practitioners: Research on Land Use and Health from Two Different Perspectives
These fact sheets summarize research linking health outcomes to the built environment: one for health practitioners and advocates, in which the research is categorized according to public health issue (e.g., injury prevention, access to healthy food); and one for planners, in which the research is categorized by land use issue (e.g., density, street connectivity).
