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Mark your
calendar!
Planning
for Healthy Places and the Healthy Corner Stores Network
invite you to join the upcoming webinar: Policy Approaches to Healthy Corner Stores -
which will be held Tuesday, September 14, 2010, from 12:30pm – 2:00pm, Pacific
Time/3:30-5:00pm Eastern. Register Here
Corner
store advocates around the country are exploring how policy approaches  could incentivize and
sustain healthy changes in small stores. The authority of local
governments to regulate land use and economic development and levy taxes
lends itself to a number of promising policy interventions. Healthy
corner store advocates across the country are currently developing a
number of promising policy approaches. In some communities, new policies
are being developed; in others, existing resources are being redirected
to support healthy corner store work.
First,
we will provide a basic overview of how land use and economic development
tools could be leveraged to require or incentivize healthy food
offerings. Then advocates and planners from Seattle,
Los Angeles, Baltimore,
Minneapolis, and Philadelphia will share their
innovative policy approaches to healthy corner stores work.
Planning
for Healthy Places works to engage public health advocates and
practitioners in the land-use and economic development
decision-making process throughout California.
We develop tools for training advocates in the relationship between the
built environment and public health, and provide technical assistance for
creating and implementing land use policies that support healthier
communities.
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