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Best Practices: Guidelines for Designing a Healthier Arvada
Advisory Services Panel - Healthy Communities
Arvada , Colorado March 2013
Access to Healthy Foods
Guideline: Encourage access to fresh,
healthy foods for all members of the
community.
• Recommendation: Enhance the Arvada
Farmer’s Market
• Recommendation: Identify those portions
of the community without walkable access
to healthy foods, and undertake initiatives
to support better food access in these
areas
– Community and school gardens
– Healthy options at convenience stores
– Mobile produce vendors
– Community kitchen / restaurant incubator
– Ethnic markets
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