Healthy Communities Conference Call

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Healthy Communities Conference Call June 8,
2009 Spokane Regional Health District
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Current Activities

• Identify and prioritize areas to improve
  walkability in City Council District 1
  neighborhoods
• Identify and prioritize ways to increase bike
  riding in CD 1
• Sponsor a Health Impact Assessment Training
• Increase the number of community gardens in CD1
• Install a universal playground

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Walkability

• Beacon Hills Charrette
• Mtn. Biking, hiking, geo-caching
• Connect the neighborhoods to the recreational
  area
• NPS tech grant
• Got neighbors involved
• Developed draft plan for the trails and trail
  heads
• Free recreational opportunities!!!

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• Charrette
• About 50 participants
• Held on a Friday night and all day Saturday
• Many groups represented
• Need funding
• Some land private

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Walkability

• Education-Walking Program
• Partnering with Community Health Education
  Resources
• Two routes from neighborhood community center
• Includes screenings
• Some nutrition education
• Gets neighbors feeling comfortable walking in
  their neighborhood
• Using CDC walking group guide
• http//www.prevent.org/content/view/158/177/

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Walkability

• Riverside Walking Audit
• University District
• Many pedestrian issues
• Partners City of Spokane, Spokane County CTR,
  EWU, WSU
• Did walking/bus stop audits

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Results of Audit

• Traffic too fast!
• Lanes too long!
• Visibility issues!
• Bus stops not in right locations not inviting.
• Funding
• GTEC funding, CTR, Universities
• Will link to the Centennial Trail!!

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Walkability

• Neighborhood Planning
• 13 neighborhoods in Spokane chosen
• 4 neighborhoods working together in CD1 to form
  the Greater Hillyard Neighborhood Planning
  Association
• Prioritization of sidewalks
• Public Health is a partner!!
• Surveying
• Working with the city to do video on Healthy
  Communities and neighborhood planning

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Walkability

• City of Spokane Comprehensive Plan Update
• Social Health Chapter
• Pursuing Healthy Communities Chapter
• Policy recommendations included
• Promoting community gardens in parks, libraries,
  schools
• Access to nutritious foods in neighborhoods
• Farmers markets in neighborhoods
• Sliding fee scale/free for recreational
  opportunities
• Universal playgrounds

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Increase Biking

• City of Spokane Bicycle Master Plan
• Goals and Policies
• 1. Increase use of bicycling for all trip
  purposes and improve safety of bicyclists
  throughout Spokane.
• 2. Provide convenient and secure short-term and
  long-term bike parking throughout Spokane and
  encourage employers to provide shower and locker
  facilities.

• 3. Educate bicyclists, motorists, and the general
  public about bicycle safety and the benefits of
  bicycling and increase bicyclist safety through
  effective law enforcement and detailed crash
  analysis.
• 4. Develop a collaborative program between a
  variety of city departments and agencies and
  several outside organizations to secure funding
  and implement the Master Bike Plan.

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Bike Plan Partnerships

• City of Spokane
• Spokane Bicycle Advisory Board
• National Park Service
• Spokane Regional Transportation Council
• Spokane Transit
• Neighborhoods
• http//www.spokaneplanning.org/master_bike_plan.ht
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Health Impact Assessment

• Training conducted by Candace Rutt from the CDC
• 34 in attendance
• Partnered with
• Lands Council
• City of Spokane
• Results from our HIA are at
• http//www.srhd.org/documents/PA_N/HIA2.pdf

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Increase Community Gardens

• Working with WSU Master Gardener-Pat Munts
• City of Spokane support
• Using Water Dept. property
• Two gardens in summer of 2009 ran by community
  centers and neighborhoods
• Using Growing Communities Curriculum
• Our factsheet at
• http//www.srhd.org/documents/PA_N/CommunityGarden
  .pdf

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Universal Playground

• Finally happening this summer
• Many struggles
• Many happy endings!!

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