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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION <br />Minutes of March 27, 2019 — Joint workshop <br />Page 3 of 5 <br />0 Network of Facilities <br />0 Site Design <br />0 Safety & Access <br />Step it Up! — Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Walking and Walkable <br />Communities <br />0 Walkable, Livable Communities <br />0 Safe Routes to School (Parks, etc.) <br />0 Age -Friendly Comm. (AARP, WHO) <br />0 Sustainability, Smart Growth <br />0 Transportation Demand Management <br />0 Transit Oriented Development <br />0 Urban Land Institute (ULI) <br />0 Congress for a New Urbanism (CNU) <br />Point 1: <br />0 The built environment matters for long term health and well-being <br />■ Land use <br />■ Site design <br />■ Network <br />• Healthy design yields a triple bottom line — Healthy Economy, <br />Healthy Environment, Healthy People <br />• Evolving marketplace <br />■ Private sector is explicitly selling health <br />■ Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Housing Values in U.S. Cities <br />• How much is a better Walk score worth? <br />• Trails as community assets! <br />• Trails for Transportation. <br />0 Link to destinations & on -street network <br />0 NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) vs. LIMBY (Link It to My <br />Back Yard!) <br />• 2017 Community & Transportation Preference Survey — Growing <br />preferences: <br />0 20% would trade detached home & a yard for walkability. <br />0 88% w/destinations to walk to report higher life quality. <br />0 70%+ want walkability and a short commute. <br />0 Many prefer walking but drive by necessity. <br />0 Millennials most likely to prefer walking, but also growing <br />trend among empty nest baby boomers. <br />• Valued enough to retrofit suburbia? <br />• Increased Competitiveness <br />• The Economic Benefits of Sustainable Streets <br />- Point 2: <br />0 The converging economics of "active" design: <br />■ Market demand <br />■ Market performance <br />■ Developer & community interest <br />■ Quantifiable health benefits! <br />