Community Economic Development and Health

Designing buildings, neighborhoods, and communities in a way that protects people's health is possible when the right people work together.

Establish a practice of considering health effects when making land use, transportation planning, and other community design decisions.

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National

• Designing and Building Health Places (CDC)
• Key Resources for Healthy Community Design (CDC)
• Healthy Community Design Expert Workshop Report (CDC)
• Guidebook on Community Design for Older Residents (EPA)
• EPA Smart Growth Fact Sheet (EPA))
• Putting Smart Growth to Work in Rural Communities

State

• Liveable New York, Madison County Presentation
• Office of the Aging Empowering Committee

Madison County

• A Healthy Design for Madison County: Primer for Smart Growth
• Coordinated Public Transit‐Human Services Transportation Plan, 5/10
• 2010 Community Economic Development/Health Committee Meetings
  • Minutes 06/02 l 07/07 l 08/18 l 09/15 l 11/10

Resources

• Expert Review: Strength of Public Health Data in Support of Proposed Community Design Standards in LEED for Neighborhood Development (Farr Associates, 8/2008)