Atlanta Regional Plan 2040 Health Impact Assessment (2010)
Timeframe: June 2010 to May 2011
Sponsor/Client: Health Impact Project, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Project Scale: regional
Program Areas:
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The Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development (CQGRD) a research center of the Georgia Institute of Technology's College of Architecture, will conduct a comprehensive Health Impact Assessment (HIA) on PLAN 2040, the long-term regional comprehensive plan being prepared by the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC). The ARC is Atlanta’s regional planning and intergovernmental coordination agency. PLAN 2040 will integrate multiple aspects of regional planning, including transportation and land use, housing, greenspace, water, and air quality through the year 2040. Will it promote safe, livable, affordable communities with a stable economic base? Will it allow metro Atlanta residents to choose healthy, active lifestyles? How will it affect everyday activities like going to work, to school, or to the store? CQGRD will investigate these questions and many others and suggest ways to make PLAN 2040, and subsequently other regional planning efforts, more health-oriented. Additionally, CQGRD will provide HIA training and technical assistance to project partners. Through the HIA process, CQGRD seeks to present sustainability, economic benefit and health as mutually-supportive, attainable goals of transportation and land use planning. A final report is expected in September 2011.
