4P: Policy
Policy development is the key to institutionalizing health-supportive environments. Active living partnerships should identify and attempt to influence changes in public policies and standards as well as organizational practices. These efforts will include advocacy, relationship building with policy makers, presentations to policy boards, and influencing employer or school policies. Educating policy makers - as well as citizens, professionals and advocates - about the need for local environments that support active living -- is an essential component of this strategy. In general, policy tactics are those that end with a policy change (e.g., adoption of greenway master plan, pedestrian friendly street design guidelines).
4P Case Studies
- GO Boulder strives to develop a sustainable and balanced transportation system supporting the quality of life valued by Boulder's residents, employees and visitors.
- The purpose of the new Cornelius, North Carolina Land Development Code is to facilitate safe and orderly growth through design principles that aim to disperse traffic and to provide an inviting and safe space for cyclists and pedestrians.
- The goal of the Pedestrian Impact Statement is to encourage developers to integrate pedestrian improvements into both new and existing projects throughout Montgomery County, Maryland.
- Increase Olympia voter support to approve a utility tax increase to fund parks and sidewalks.
- To create the opportunity for all citizens of Pitt County, North Carolina to have access to physical activity facilities.
- This report provides summary studies, literature reviews and individual studies that pertain to the relationships between travel and land use. The references can be characterized as smart growth, and thus consistent with the FHA objective of transportation and community system preservation
- This report by the Surface Transportation Policy Project finds that voters across the country are increasingly being asked to approve new funding measures for transportation at the polls. It places these ballot measures in the broader context of transportation finance, and sets forth five criteria to help voters and policy-makers evaluate pending and future ballot measures through an in-depth review provided by five case studies. The report makes a series of recommendations for improving transportation finance.
- Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community provides readers with an understanding of the connections between smart growth and density; highlights the success of nine community-led efforts to create vibrant compact neighborhoods; and introduces five time tested design principles to ensure that density becomes a community asset and not a liability.
- Published by the Center for Health Improvement's Health Policy Coach as part of a collection of prevention-focused policies, these profiles offer policy recommendations and model practices related to improving nutrition and health.
- This tells the stories of 32 schools and school districts from across the United States that are making changes that make healthy choices the easy choice for students. The stories include K-12 schools, reflecting broad diversity in geographical location and demographics, and document innovative approaches to improve the nutritional quality of foods and beverages sold outside of federal meal programs. Making It Happen is a joint project of Team Nutrition of the Food and Nutrition Service, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Division of Adolescent and School Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and is supported by the United States Department of Education (ED).
- This database highlights numerous policies and programs that states and localities nationwide have implemented to further smart growth.
