EPA released a report today that offers low-income, minority, tribal, and overburdened communities approaches to shape development that responds to their needs and reflects their values. Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development provides a menu of land use and community design strategies community-based organizations, local and regional decision-makers, developers, and others can use to revitalize their communities: · Facilitate meaningful community engagement in planning and land use decisions
· Promote public health and a clean and safe environment
· Strengthen existing communities
· Provide housing choices
· Provide transportation options
· Improve access to opportunities and daily necessities
· Preserve and build on the features that make a community distinctive
Case studies highlight seven communities that have used these strategies: Edmonston, MD; Chicago, IL; Spartanburg, SC; New Orleans, LA; Ohkay Owingeh, NM; Boston, MA; and Seattle, WA.
The report was developed jointly by the Office of Sustainable Communities and Office of Environmental Justice.
Read the press release.
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Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918
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