Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhoods

Article Source: Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D (Arch) [Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhoods]

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San Bruno CA's Community Development Director David Woltering recently attended the 55th IMCL Conference in Ottawa, Canada on May 14-18 2018 and provided the following information received at the conference.

Me offers these comments on the below article:

David Woltering, AICP, MPA

This overview of what makes for a “Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhood” by Suzanne Crowhurst Lennard, Architect and Co-founder of International Making Cities Livable (IMCL), is a very beneficial guide for how to make our neighborhoods and communities less automobile-dependent, more accessible to public transit, more walkable and bicycle-friendly, have a greater mix of land uses, have great public spaces to promote frequent interactions among people, and to create human-scale neighborhoods and complete communities. San Bruno’s Transit Corridors Specific Plan, adopted in 2013 by the San Bruno City Council as a vision for transforming the community’s downtown, exemplifies the IMCL attributes of a “Healthy, 10-Minute Neighborhood”. This is a very worthy long term vision which will require an on-going commitment to realize its full benefits!

The following contains ideas that San Bruno (and ALL CITIES) should consider as they continues to move forward and make their city more liveable. Many small steps need to be continually taken as the vision continues to guide further progress.

The Mission:

The purpose of the Making Cities Liveable movement is to enhance the well-being of all inhabitants, strengthen community, improve social and physical health, and increase civic engagement by sustainably reshaping the build of our cities, suburbs, towns and villages.

Watch San Bruno Patch for future articles on this same topic and for your consideration as you interact with your city as together you both continue to take the next steps furthering the cities vision. Many small steps are needed and take time and do not always easily show visible signs of community improvements.

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Robert Riechel

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