Healthy Communities

I have been at a Conference for four days on "Building Healthy Communities." Here is an excerpt from a blog response I posted to Step Morgan on his blog stepmorgan.com
One of the first steps is making downtown the heart again. I would love for Mountain Valley Water to be the heart beat of our town again. We can achieve this through policies and guidelines such as zoning so that we increase the density of people living downtown, connectivity: Cross walks, signs, sidewalks big enough for several people, bike lanes, shared green spaces and business and community living and working together. There will be a meeting to adopt a new 2030 plan that will do this and revitalize our downtown which will bring people to live here and reduce traffic problems as it will spread people out broadly and by doing so increase safety. Diversity with density and accessibility makes for a Healthy Community with Downtown as its' beating heart.

Get behind the 2030 Plan at http://www.cityhs.net/dept-planning-development-comp-plan.html
Meet 6p.m. City Hall Aug. 19th 2010.