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2.10 When providing education and analysis to inform decision‐makers, local staff, and other
stakeholders about open space, economic, and environmental benefits, also inform them
of health and equity benefits. Can be done by reporting out monitoring results for health
and equity indicators, by including public health representatives when designing
materials. Make sure other “stakeholders” are the public as well.
3.7 When researching and modeling to provide evidence to support parking regulation
modification and incentivizing, take outcomes of air emissions and transportation
circulation patterns out to respiratory health outcomes from air quality changes,
pedestrian/bike injuries/fatalities from collisions, and changes in physical activity levels. 14
4.1 Publicize and educate policy‐makers and the public about the RHNA results.
4.3 One methodology to supplement SACOG’s tool measuring the jobs/housing fit is the
Center for Community Innovation at University of California – Berkeley’s Early Warning
Toolkit for Gentrification. 15
4.5 Could you give more detail on how you would support overcoming common issues local
analyses of impediments to fair housing (and regional analyses)?
5.1 Do an equity analysis to see if the lands identified to meet goods movement needs
disproportionately negatively impact economic justice communities.
5.2 Studies of the land needs for goods movement and distribution should include indicators
of health outcomes impacted by increased truck traffic such as motor vehicle collisions
with other vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists; respiratory disease outcomes from
increased exposure to diesel emissions from trucking, and noise impacts of localized and
regional goods movement.
5.3 Agriculture industry needs for goods movement should include in studies the size of
farms and prioritize needs for small and mid‐size farmers, who have been hit
disproportionately by development and by the recession.
6.5,
7.1,
&
7.4
Local jurisdictions could use health impacts analyses to build on RUCS data and tools to
analyze possible impacts to agriculture and natural resource from any urban footprint
growth. HIA is a useful stakeholder‐driven methodology that can supplement other
methods, processes, and tools. 16 Also, SACOG should foster or participate in a process to
develop additional tools and a more comprehensive dataset of the region’s natural
resources and examine how they contribute to purify water, mitigate urban heat island
effect, and other public health interests.
7.6 Local partners at University of California at Davis may be able to support the work SACOG
is doing to support Farm to Market access.
8.4 There are tools available to support SACOG’s support in studying localized air pollution
impacts on health: MTC, tools from the Health and Equity metrics in SCS, and SFDPH’s
13 Growing Healthy in Southern California. American Lung Association of California.
http://www.lungusa.org/associations/states/california/advocacy/fight‐for‐air‐quality/smart‐growth‐forcalifornia.html
14 HIP, ibid. Elevating Health & Equity into the Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) Process: SCS Health &
Equity Performance Metrics.
15 Chapple K. 2009. Mapping Susceptibility to Gentrification: The Early Warning Toolkit. Available at
communityinnovation.berkeley.edu/reports/Gentrification‐report.pdf
16 HIP, ibid. Elevating Health & Equity into the Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS) Process: SCS Health &
Equity Performance Metrics.
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