Draft MTP/SCS Comments Received - sacog

SCS Health & Equity Metrics August 2011
We agree with these metrics, and we recommend the addition of the following metrics
associated with walking and biking:
Proportion of households that can walk or bike (10 minutes) to meet at least 50% of
their daily needs
Daily amount (in minutes) of physical activity
Per capita miles traveled by mode
Map and count annual number of pedestrian and bicycle collisions (and severity of
injury/fatality)
Stratify all metrics by demographics to illuminate equity issues
Chapter 6 – Policies and Strategies
‐ We have some general suggestions, then comments on each section of the policies and
strategies. Appendix B includes a detailed list of suggestions, resources, and comments that
we look forward to your response on. Generally, we recommend:
o Including public health representatives on the Board or performance measure selection
committees.
o Tying strategies of “support” or “encouragement” or “incentivizing” to methods of
supporting and directing the reader to the larger MTP/SCS document that identifies
specific dollar amounts of programs, if not stated.
o Including health outcomes indicators and health determinants indicators in any
modeling, monitoring, and reporting.
o In places that SACOG has a strategy of educating, doing outreach, and publicizing,
ensure that the stakeholder list include not only decision‐makers, policy‐makers, local
staff, and other agencies, but the public and engaged CBOs, as well as media.
o When creating efficiencies, seeking public‐private partnerships for funding, and
increasing competition, make sure to not violate union contracts. If creating new
bidding on new or current projects for operations or construction/maintenance, include
first‐source hiring to employ local residents and prioritize minority‐owned businesses.
o Moving up the timeline for investments in public transit and bike/ped infrastructure
improvements.
See HIP Comment Letter Appendix B: Health & Equity comments on SACOG Policies & Strategies
Chapter 7 ‐ Environmental Sustainability
‐ While this chapter includes a section on open space resources for recreational use, it does not
discuss equity in access to this open space. We recommend measuring the proportion of
households that can walk or bike (10 minutes) to parks, and including stratification by income,
race, age, and disability, in future monitoring, in planning for Transit Priority Areas, and other
future plans and evaluations.
‐ While health impacts associated with air pollutants (i.e., ozone, PM 10 , PM 2.5 , and CO) are
described (i.e., pages 7‐22 – 7‐24), we recommend modeling health impacts associated with
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