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Promoting public healthFostering sustainabilityRecent scientific research has highlighted how the built Sustainability, generally defined as meeting today’senvironment influences the health of local residents. needs without compromising the ability of future generationsto meet their’s, is one of the City’s core strategicLow-density, single-use communities with limitedwalking options have been shown to have higher levels commitments. The 2009 Creating a more Sustainableof obesity than more compact, walkable areas, evenVancouver Plan includes a range of goals and strategieswhen other factors are accounted for (Salis; Anderson & directed at City operations and the community at large toSchmidt). Almost two-thirds (64%) of Vancouver adults reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and facilitatewere obese or overweight in 2011 according to the Clark efficient energy and resource use. Following the SustainableVancouver Plan, inventories were completedCounty Public Health Department. The Growth ManagementAct was amended in 2009 to require land use elementsof local comprehensive plans to promote physical emissions in Vancouver at 3.2 million metric tons ofin 2007 which estimated total annual private and publicactivity. The Vancouver Comprehensive Plan contains Carbon Dioxide Equivalent. Approximately 1/3 of thesepolicies encouraging commercial and public services to were attributed to local energy consumption; 1/3 frombe located near housing, with appropriate sidewalk connectionsand paths to encourage walking.1/3 from the outside production and transport of goodslocal transportation activity, primarily auto traffic, andand food that are then consumed locally. (http://www.The importance of nearby grocery stores or other sourcesof fruits, vegetables or fresh meat has also been the CommunityInventory-6pager-010810-final.pdf)cityofvancouver.us/upload/images/PublicWorks/CoVsubjectof health studies. Neighborhoods lacking theseoptions have been shown to have higher levels of obesity.Similarly, areas with high concentrations of fast food individual buildings, based on the materials used, andSustainability can be promoted in the construction ofhave been shown to contribute to obesity, particularly provisions made for energy usage and production duringin children. Figure 1-4Figure 1-4. Areas in Vancouver further than ½ mile from nearest source of healthy foodshows Vancouver “fooddeserts”, areas that aremore than ½ mile fromthe nearest supermarketor smaller source offresh food. The VancouverComprehensivePlan promotes therecruitment and retentionof supermarkets orother fresh food storesin areas lacking them,and encourages growingfood at home, or incommunity gardens.Source: Clark County Public Health Department1-10 | Community Development Vancouver Comprehensive Plan 2011-2030
the lifetime of the building. In 2009 the City of Vancouverpartnered with Clark County and the Cascadia senior safety considerations. Figure 1-5 shows the areasroad and sidewalk design, signage and lighting addressRegion Green Building Council to identify and remove in Vancouver with the highest proportion of seniors.regulatory barriers to construction of affordable andsustainable single family housing. The ComprehensivePlan adopts and incorporates these plans and studies by The comprehensive plan land use mapreference, and provides additional policy direction.Figure 1-6 is a simplified version of the Vancouvercomprehensive plan land use map, which officiallydesignates the type and intensity of land uses allowed onPlanning for an aging populationindividual properties throughout the City of Vancouver.Vancouver, like other communities, faces significant Designations applied by Clark County in the unincorporatedVUGA are also indicated. Poster-sized copies ofdemographic shifts during the next twenty years. In2011, the first year that baby boom generation seniors the comprehensive plan land use designation map showingactual designations on all properties are availablewill become eligible for retirement, one in six Vancouverresidents was 65 years or older. Over the next 15 years from the City’s Website (www.ci.vancouver.wa.us).the number of residents 65 years or older countywide isprojected to grow three times as fast as the overall population,and the number of residents 85 or older is projectedto grow twice as fast. In response, the VancouverComprehensive Plan and implementing zoning standardsstrive to ensure opportunities are provided for adequatesenior housing for arange of age, income Figure 1-5. Areas in Vancouver with higher proportion of seniorsand health needs, andto ensure opportunitiesfor appropriateconventional housingas needed to accommodateseniors.Provisions are alsoneeded to help seniorsage in place inexisting homes.Beyond housingissues, the ComprehensivePlan shouldfacilitate integratedcommunities wherecommercial, medical,social and otherservices used byseniors are locatednearby, and thatSource: Clark County Public Health DepartmentVancouver Comprehensive Plan 2011-2030 Community Development | 1- 11
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