Recommendation SI.7

Recommendation Status: Expand

Foster safe, resilient and vital neighborhoods that enable healthy and active lifestyles and community well-being by reducing exposure to harmful environmental contaminants, expanding and improving the quality of tree canopy cover, encouraging investment in walking, cycling, and recreational and civic facilities, and providing access to healthy food options and health care services.

This recommendation helps achieve the following

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Sustainable Infrastructure

Responsible
Growth

Complete Communities

Key Issues Addressed

Population Stagnation
Not Greater Housing Diversity & Affordability
Social & Environmental Resilience
Not Infrastructure Cost-burden
Not Jobs-Skills Mismatch

Related Planning Topic Areas

Not Economic Development
Housing
Land Use & Development
Open Space & Environment
Not Transportation & Infrastructure

Applicable Geographic Scales

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Improved public health outcomes.

Countywide

Countywide

Municipalities

Not Municipalities

Sub-geographies

Not Sub-geographies

Equity Considerations

Enables support and access to health and active lifestyle for all residents.

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Sustainability Considerations

Implementation

Lead Partner(s)

  • Municipalities

  • St. Louis County Planning Department

  • Department of Public Health

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Supporting Partner(s)

  • Private Developers

  • Local Businesses

  • Non-Profit Sector

  • Community Organizations/Institutions

  • Civic Organizations and Foundations

  • Great Rivers Greenway

  • Public Safety Agencies

  • Healthcare and Educational Organizations

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Cost

Low
(Less than $1 mil)

Medium
($1-10mil)

High
($10+ mil)

Project, Partnership, or Policy

Not Project

Project

Partnership

Policy

Timeline

Medium-term
(5-10 Years)

Ongoing

Near-term
(Within 5 Years)

Long-term
(10+ Years)

Potential Funding Sources

  • St. Louis County CDBG

  • HUD Opportunity Zones

  • Choice Neighborhoods (HOPE VI)

  • HUD Office of Economic Resilience (OER)

  • Healthy Neighborhoods Equity Fund

  • HUD Main Street

  • Thriving Communities TAP

  • Neighborhood Stabilization Program

  • Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program

  • Home Program

Tracking Implementation

Tracking Success

  • LEED CC Natural Systems + Ecology

  • LEED ND Neighborhood Pattern & Design

  • SITES Site Design-Human Health + Well-Being

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If overperforming, what should we do?

Develop regulatory tools and design guidelines to implement vision. Implement demonstration projects.

If underperforming, what should we do?

Keep going and publish the success.

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