COMMUNICATION Community Engagement Education Build community capacity INDUSTRIAL SITES Contamination / Toxics Industrial Pollution Grain Mills—Residue Polluting Businesses Rail Yards Trucks / Truck Traffic
CLEAN SOIL Toxics/Contamination Arsenic HEALTH DISPARITIES Health Care Access Mental Health Alcoholism Immunizations
ACCESS TO GARDENS
ACCESS TO HEALTHY AFFORDABLE FOOD Food Quality Access to Local Food Organic Food / GMOs Affordable Food
NOISE
RENEWABLE ENERGY Reliance on fossil fuels
WATER QUALITY Stormwater Street Drains River Pollution
WATER FRIENDLY YARDS Lawn Chemicals Native Plants
ENERGY EFFICIENCY POWERLINES
ENFORCEMENT Speeding Vehicles Traffic safety Traffic laws
ACCESS TO GREEN NATURAL SPACE Parks / green space Maintaining natural environment Wildlife
CREATE SENSE OF COMMUNITY Hopelessness Lack of activities Lack of kids activities Family Quality schools Support for seniors Acceptance of diversity
AIR POLLUTION VEHICLE EMISSIONS Traffic Traffic light timing
OBESITY, NUTRITION Diabetes High Blood Pressure
BACKYARD BURNING
RECYCLING / COMPOSTING HAZARDOUS WASTE ILLEGAL DUMPING
SMELLS / FUMES DENTAL ISSUES
SAFE AND HEALTHY HOME Asbestos Mercury
HEALTH IMPACTS Autism Cancer
LEAD ALLERGIES
ASTHMA
BUGS / PESTS MOLD SMOKING CHEMICALS IN PRODUCTS
PERSONAL SECURITY
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY Climate change Overpopulation
Drinking water taste Toxics
RADON
BUILT ENVIRONMENT Bikeable community Walkable community Accessible for disabled Light pollution Unsafe street crossings Transit service
HOUSING Affordable housing Rental properties Homelessness
Longfellow and Phillips: Aggregated Community-Identified Environmental and Health Issues Chart based on brainstorming session at September 30, 2011 Planning Team Meeting
COMMUNITY BLIGHT Empty schools buildings Maintaining Infrastructure Maintaining buildings Graffiti Blighted buildings Maintaining housing Stalled/lack of development Empty storefronts Foreclosures Poor street lighting Unappealing properties Litter / trash
ECONOMIC INSTABILITY Local govt / taxes / budgets Lack of safety net Poverty Homelessness
BUSINESS VITALITY Keep local businesses Jobs Parking
Draft - 10/24/11