Comments on: How Community Planning Can Benefit Health http://www.utahsenatedemocrats.org/archives/149 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:31:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: fstaheli http://www.utahsenatedemocrats.org/archives/149#comment-30 fstaheli Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:15:41 +0000 http://www.utahsenatedemocrats.org/archives/149#comment-30 I agree with your suggestion for walkable communities. The benefits will definitely be fewer overweight people, but also cleaner communities (less driving means less pollution) and more enjoyable communities. It seems like historical zoning laws caused a lot of the problems that we are just getting around to fixing today. Zoning traditionally isolated residential neighborhoods from commercial neighborhoods instead of letting people live and work where they wanted to. Home, shopping, and work can often very successfully be in close proximity to each other. SimpleUtahMormonPolitics.com I agree with your suggestion for walkable communities. The benefits will definitely be fewer overweight people, but also cleaner communities (less driving means less pollution) and more enjoyable communities.

It seems like historical zoning laws caused a lot of the problems that we are just getting around to fixing today. Zoning traditionally isolated residential neighborhoods from commercial neighborhoods instead of letting people live and work where they wanted to. Home, shopping, and work can often very successfully be in close proximity to each other.

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