Draft MTP/SCS Comments Received - sacog

SCS Health & Equity Metrics August 2011
Appendix B: Health and Equity comments on SACOG Policies and Strategies
Strengths
Environmental Sustainability
Complementary strategies
# Comment
2.5 Continuance of the social equity analysis.
3 All of Policy 3 further health goals
4.3 Tool development measuring jobs/housing fit and Housing & Transportation cost analysis.
4.5 Support for jurisdictions in overcoming impediments to fair housing.
6 Incentives for infill and alternative modes of transit, minimizing the urban footprint,
conserving open space and natural resources all support positive health outcomes.
7.7 Incentives for rural land use and transportation practices that benefit the region and as
well as local rural areas.
8.1‐ TDM, SECAT, and Spare the Air support.
8.3
10 Policies and programs to reduce the environmental, health, and equity effects of goods
movement. Any change in practice requires multiple approaches and it is good to see
SACOG focusing at the systemic and corporate levels as well as at behavior change among
individual drivers. We encourage prioritization among individual drivers.
# Comment
1.5 Have a local public health representative on the advisory team when helping local
governments create and maintain a development activity tracking tools assessing growth
patterns.
2.2‐ When monitoring transportation and air quality impacts of development patterns,
2.3 include health outcomes monitoring and equity monitoring (see attached Health and
Equity indicators: # 1,2,6, 11, 13). Specifically, monitor respiratory disease impacts of air
quality changes due to development; injuries/fatalities due to changed traffic patterns,
and change in physical activity levels – and how development patterns impact race,
ethnicity, low‐income communities. 10
2.4 Educational materials should include health impacts of neighborhood travel behavior,
and enlist public health departments to help create these.
2.7 One methodology to include health impacts in review transportation projects in the
design phase is including health impact assessment in the planning requirements, or a
health/social checklist. 11
12 13
2.9 Include in the economic land use modeling ways of modeling cost of health impacts.
10 For more detail, see Human Impact Partners, August 2011. Elevating Health & Equity into the Sustainable
Communities Strategy (SCS) Process: SCS Health & Equity Performance Metrics. Available at
http://www.humanimpact.org/projects
11 For more information about Health Impact Assessment, see http://www.humanimpact.org/hia
12 Pedestrian and Bicycle Infrastructure: A National Study of Employment Impacts. University of Massachussetts,
Amherst, Political Economy Research Institute, June 2011.
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