Health and Wellness Policies

There are 143 policies in the health and wellness chapter of the North Fair Oaks Community Plan. Of these, 28 have been completed, 23 have been initiated and partially completed, 61 are ongoing and 31 have not yet been initiated. 78% of the policies in the Health and Wellness development chapter of the Plan have been completed, initiated, and partially completed or are ongoing and 22% have not been initiated. Click on the plus (+) symbol to expand each policy and its completion status. Priority goals or policies are indicated by a diamond symbol (♦).

Completed

28

Initiated and Partially Completed

23

Ongoing

61

Not Initiated

31

    • Policy 1E: Seek joint-use agreements with the Redwood City School District to expand access to playgrounds in the Fair Oaks and Garfield schools after school hours and on weekends. Status: Complete

    • Policy 1F: Partner with Redwood City to expand the joint-use agreements with the Redwood City School District and with Redwood City Parks and Recreation to improve access for North Fair Oaks residents to facilities at the nearby Taft and Hoover schools after school hours and on weekends. Status: Complete

    • Policy 2C: Post and adequately maintain signage to indicate park rules and hours in multiple languages. Status: Complete

    • Policy 4B: Limit the addition of new fast-food restaurants and liquor stores within North Fair Oaks. Status: Complete

    • Policy 4D: Limit the concentration of fast food restaurants and liquor stores within a quarter mile of schools. Status: Complete

    • Policy 4R: Encourage public and private agencies and organizations to continue centralized food distribution to North Fair Oaks families in need. Status: Complete

    • Policy 4S: Support Meals on Wheels and other services that provide food to residents who require in-home support. Status: Complete

    • Policy 4T: Collaborate with residents and community groups to build new community gardens (community gardens are defined as areas that provide space for individuals or community members to grow plants for household use, education, recreation, and community distribution) on vacant public parcels in neighborhoods, school yards, church yards, and potentially as part of private development projects. Status: Complete

    • Policy 4X: Ensure that residents have access to clean drinking water in homes and throughout the community. Status: Complete

    • Policy 5E: Include community garden components in the development of new parks or play areas in North Fair Oaks. Status: Complete

    • Policy 6C: Improve bicycle and pedestrian access to clinics and other health facilities within the neighborhood to ensure that residents have safe and convenient access to these facilities. Status: Complete

    • Policy 6E: Encourage and facilitate development of a pharmacy in North Fair Oaks. Status: Complete

    • Policy 6G: Promote and facilitate service providers in North Fair Oaks that reflect the diversity of the community and offer services in languages other than English. Status: Complete

    • Policy 6I: Support in-home provision of supportive services to special needs groups, to help residents remain in independent housing. Status: Complete

    • Policy 7C: Translate prevention and educational materials into multiple languages, including Spanish, and ensure that materials are written appropriately for the literacy levels of the target audience. Status: Complete

    • Policy 10E: Where pedestrian crossings are signalized, ensure that the crossing time is sufficient for all residents to cross safely, and install pedestrian countdown signals wherever feasible. Status: Complete

    • Policy 10F: Install signal loop detectors (detectors that sense the presence of vehicles at intersections and trigger appropriate signal changes) that are sensitive to bicycles at signalized intersections. Status: Complete

    • Policy 13F: Promote creation of new childcare space in and around larger residential, mixed-use, commercial and other larger developments, and as part of transit stations and transit-oriented development projects. Status: Complete

    • Policy 13G: Explore policies to streamline and facilitate creation of new childcare facilities, particularly neighborhood based large family childcare facilities, through changes to County code, changes to permitting processes, fee waivers, exemption from permitting requirements, and other incentives. Identify and remove barriers to, and provide incentives and assistance for, large-scale and small-scale childcare provision in all parts of North Fair Oaks. Encourage multiple new developments to pool needed childcare space in centrally accessible locations, and to contribute to creation of shared childcare space on- or off-site. Status: Complete

    • Policy 13H: Allow childcare as a use permitted by right in all areas designated Commercial Mixed-Use. Status: Complete

    • Policy 14A: Promote higher-density mixed-use development along Middlefield Road and El Camino Real through changes to land use regulations and codes, as described in Chapter 2, Land Use Designations. Status: Complete

    • Policy 14B: Encourage infill development that respects the scale of surrounding homes on residential streets.Status: Complete

    • Policy 14C: Encourage affordable housing, particularly in areas that have access to public transportation within walking distance. Status: Complete

    • Policy 18E: Ensure that adequate signage is posted near railroad corridors to promote crossing safety. Status: Complete

    • Policy 20B: Ensure that all neighborhood schools and community centers have disaster response plans in place, and that these facilities are prepared to serve as shelters as appropriate. Status: Complete

    • Policy 21A: Reduce the impact of direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of stationary and non-stationary sources of pollution such as heavy industry, railroads, diesel trucks and nearby roadways. Status: Complete

    • Policy 21I: Encourage, as part of new development projects, and as part of public and private right-of-way improvements, installation of electrical vehicle (EV) charging stations, and/or provisions of infrastructure (including appropriate conduit) for future installation of EV charging stations, to provide opportunities for future EV charging without requiring retrofitting of existing facilities. Status: Complete

    • Policy 22B: Prevent soil and water contamination from industrial operations and other activities that use, produce or dispose of hazardous or toxic substances. Status: Complete

    • Policy 1A: Improve pedestrian and bicycle connections from residential areas to existing parks and schools within North Fair Oaks, and to community and regional parks, open space, and trails in nearby cities. Provide bicycle racks and bicycle facilities at all local parks. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 1B: Increase park acreage per capita in North Fair Oaks. Monitor park acreage over time to ensure that park needs for existing residents, and park needs created by new development and new population, are assessed and addressed. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 1C: Acquire land for new park space throughout the community to meet current and future needs. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 1H: During Plan implementation, analyze and identify ideal park locations, based on walking shed maps and analysis of accessibility from various points within the community, and identify and prioritize potential park space near these identified locations. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 4A: Explore the potential for school-based farmers’ markets or other farm-to-school programs in North Fair Oaks. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 4K: Increase the percentage of eligible residents participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the CalFresh Program (formerly known as Food Stamps), free and reduced price school lunch programs, and other food assistance programs. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 4O: Restrict the availability of unhealthy food and beverage options at neighborhood public schools, the Senior Center, the Community Center, and other public facilities. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 4W: Identify a location for and facilitate creation of a farmers’ market along Middlefield Road, or at another conveniently accessible central location. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 5C: Reduce or eliminate barriers in the zoning code to creation of community gardens, and consider allowing community gardens “by right” in parts of North Fair Oaks. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 5F: Create an educational program to encourage backyard gardening in North Fair Oaks. Encourage and adopt appropriate policies to allow the sale and trade of specified produce from backyard gardens. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 8D: Partner with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) to create trail segments or pocket parks along the Hetch-Hetchy right-of-way. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 8F: Adopt new level of service standards for local streets that consider all modes of travel when assessing street performance, while still ensuring that streets and intersections meet minimum emergency response standards. Current level of service standards evaluate street performance based on automobile speed, volume and delay time, but do not consider safety or mobility of pedestrians and bicyclists. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 8G: Address access for people with disabilities and special needs in all transportation improvements. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 8H: Consider creation of a circular shuttle bus route through North Fair Oaks, to provide east-west transportation options and better connect residents to healthcare, transit, and other essential services. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 10C: Implement Safe Routes to School plans and similar programs at all area schools serving North Fair Oaks students, consistent with the County’s countywide Safe Routes to School program. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 11A: Expand the North Fair Oaks bicycle network through the use of bicycle lanes, signage, wide paved shoulders, “sharrows” (lanes shared by bicycles and automobiles), and bicycle paths, with prominent signage that directs bicyclists to paths and bicycle routes. Wherever possible, create protected—or physically separated—bicycle lanes. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 11D: Partner with business owners to install bicycle racks in front of businesses along major roadways including Middlefield Road, 5th Avenue, Edison Way, and Spring Street. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 17A: Provide pedestrian-scale lighting throughout North Fair Oaks, and especially in the neighborhoods north of the Southern Pacific railroad spur. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 18A: Ensure that all crosswalks are clearly visible and, where necessary, install signalized pedestrian crossings. Install pedestrian countdown signals at signalized intersections, and install bicycle-sensitive signal loop detectors where feasible. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 18C: Where appropriate, reduce the number of travel lanes on streets in North Fair Oaks to slow traffic speeds and allow bicyclists and pedestrians to travel more safely. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 18D: Clearly designate and demarcate bicycle paths with signage and other indicators to ensure that both bicyclists and drivers are aware of the areas designated for and most likely to be used by bicyclists. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 19E: Develop and expand business associations for merchants along major retail corridors to promote communication and collaboration and to improve the physical condition of North Fair Oaks business districts. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 23C: Mitigate new noise impacts from traffic along Middlefield Road, El Camino Real, 5th Avenue, the rail corridor, and industrial uses within the neighborhood by buffering development sites or using other strategies to reduce or absorb sound. Where there are existing impacts, coordinate with nearby jurisdictions and agencies to advocate for design improvements that will reduce noise impacts. Status: Initiated and Partially Completed

    • Policy 1D: Develop additional parks, open space, or greenways along the Hetch-Hetchy right-of-way. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 1G: Improve safety at existing parks and open spaces through collaborations between County departments, interjurisdictional collaboration, and collaboration with the community and other organizations. Work with community members to establish and expand neighborhood watch programs and ensure that neighborhood watch programs address safety in area parks and open spaces. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 2A: Improve, update and adequately maintain existing parks and recreation facilities. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 2B: Establish new and expand existing partnerships with local resident groups and organizations to help maintain smaller local parks and playgrounds in North Fair Oaks. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 3A: Expand recreation programs at parks and recreation facilities to increase the efficient use of existing facilities and the diversity of recreation and leisure options available for residents of all ages and abilities. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 4E: Develop incentive programs for convenience stores to carry more healthy food options and to support existing healthy food outlets. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 4G: Encourage all businesses selling food to place healthier products in prominent, visible, and accessible locations within the business through incentives and other programs. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 4Q: Encourage local organizations and schools to provide education programs on nutrition and healthy eating habits. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 4U: Work with local farmers in San Mateo County and adjacent agricultural areas to supply fresh fruits and vegetables to North Fair Oaks schools and organizations. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 5A: Collaborate with residents and community groups to build new community gardens and urban farms on vacant public parcels in neighborhoods, in schoolyards, in church yards, and potentially as part of private development projects. Explore these opportunities within the existing right-of-way of neighborhood streets as well as the Hetch-Hetchy right-of-way. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 5B: Consider community gardens as an interim and potentially permanent use of vacant/underutilized land. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 6A: Partner with SamTrans to improve bus frequency and routes to neighborhood clinics and regional health facilities. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 6B: Work with paratransit providers to ensure that seniors and residents with disabilities or impaired mobility have reliable access to neighborhood clinics, regional medical facilities, and adult day care. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 6D: Partner with Redwood City School District, the Fair Oaks Senior Center, the Fair Oaks Community Center, and other community organizations to provide health education and health service delivery at existing community facilities and campuses. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 6F: Use incentive programs, information and education, and other strategies to encourage employers in San Mateo County, including in North Fair Oaks, to provide a living wage and sick days to all employees. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 6H: Maintain existing health facilities, and ensure that new development does not displace existing health services. Consider location of health facilities and potential impacts on existing facilities in all decisions on new development. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 7A: Work to reduce the amount of advertisements and messaging in storefronts, promotional areas, and other locations that emphasize or promote unhealthy eating and tobacco and alcohol products. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 7B: Work with community organizations to promote health and nutrition education. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 8A: Implement measures to enhance local and regional connectivity for all travel modes, ages, and ability levels as outlined in Chapter 3, Circulation and Parking. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 8B: Partner with SamTrans and other transit and nonprofit service providers to expand service and promote public transit as a viable transportation mode in North Fair Oaks. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 8E: Create “complete streets” that balance all modes of travel and provide a safe and comfortable pedestrian environment along commercial corridors, major arterials, and appropriate residential streets. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 9A: Work with paratransit and nonprofit service providers to expand service for seniors and residents with disabilities or impaired mobility. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 10D: Ensure that there are safe pedestrian paths or sidewalks along all streets in North Fair Oaks, and improve crosswalks, signage, and signals at key intersections. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 10G: Create and facilitate new pedestrian connections across the Southern Pacific Railroad and Caltrain tracks to expand access to community amenities and facilities throughout the neighborhood. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 11B: Support efforts of public agencies and community organizations to increase bicycle use in North Fair Oaks through programs such as bike-sharing programs, bicycle giveaways, and other efforts. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 11C: Improve bicycle facilities such as secure storage lockers, bicycle racks, and other amenities throughout all neighborhoods. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 11E: Improve bicycle safety at major intersections and along key corridors. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 11F: Work to create and facilitate safe bicycle connections across the Southern Pacific Railroad and Caltrain tracks, to expand connectivity throughout the community. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 11G: Promote connectivity for bicycle to other jurisdictions through coordination and integration with other jurisdictions’ bicycle plans and bicycle routes. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 12A: Ensure that major corridors in North Fair Oaks such as Middlefield Road and 5th Avenue include sidewalks; bike lanes or wide paved shoulders; prominent signage; dedicated bus lanes if appropriate; accessible, sheltered bus stops; frequent and safe crossing opportunities; medians or islands to serve as resting points mid-crossing where needed; accessible pedestrian signals; and narrower auto travel lanes to create a balance between auto, transit, bicycle and pedestrian modes. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 13A: Allow and encourage small-scale neighborhood-serving retail and amenities such as child care centers in underserved areas. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 13B: Enhance local connectivity for residents by implementing the recommendations in the circulation, parking, pedestrian and bicycle strategies in Chapter 3, Circulation and Parking. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 13C: Improve bicycle and pedestrian access to all neighborhood services, including clinics, to ensure that residents have safe and convenient access to these facilities. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 13D: Partner with SamTrans and other transit and paratransit providers to improve access to neighborhood clinics and regional medical facilities for all residents including seniors, families, and people with disabilities. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 15A: Address physical barriers that prevent residents, visitors and workers from walking or bicycling safely and conveniently to public amenities and retail services in and around North Fair Oaks. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 16A: Increase monitoring and enforcement of illegal dumping. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 16B: Continue to work with residents, community organizations and youth organizations to address public vandalism. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 16C: Support programs that create new strategies for deterring and preventing crimes, including vandalism, illegal dumping, and graffiti, that are significant concerns affecting quality of life. Encourage community groups and other service providers to develop anti-crime strategies inclusive of residents who may not be comfortable participating in programs run by public agencies or reporting crimes to authorities. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 16E: Continue and expand coordination between residents, business owners, and public agencies to implement graffiti abatement strategies. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 16F: Work with community partners and public agencies in multiple jurisdictions to expand monitoring and enforcement of code compliance. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 16G: Encourage property owners to maintain and upgrade their properties. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 16I: Develop strategies to address distressed properties and structures to prevent vandalism. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19B: Continue to invest in and maintain joint use agreements for public facilities such as neighborhood parks, playgrounds, and the Fair Oaks Community and Senior Centers to ensure that North Fair Oaks residents have access to social, economic, and community programs to support their well-being. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19C: Collaborate with the Redwood City School District and community organizations to provide after-school and out-of-school activities and programs for neighborhood children and youth to ensure that they have safe places to gather and socialize. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19D: Work with community partners and agencies and departments in relevant jurisdictions to develop new and expand existing programs for children, youth, and young adults in North Fair Oaks. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19G: Encourage and expand neighborhood block watch programs. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19H: Increase police foot patrols along major retail corridors. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19L: Continue and expand employment programs to support the re-entry, transition and integration of prison inmates into the community, with special attention to youth offenders. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19M: Expand youth engagement programs. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19N: Collaborate with the Sheriff’s Office, Redwood City and Menlo Park fire departments, and community and faith-based organizations and leaders to promote crime prevention and public safety. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 19O: Increase the economic security of residents by increasing local employment opportunities and wages for local residents.
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    • Policy 19P: Promote workforce development opportunities throughout North Fair Oaks. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 20A: Coordinate with neighboring jurisdictions, local employers and industries, and residents to ensure that emergency preparedness and disaster response programs are in place, and that evacuation routes are clearly designated and do not conflict with the evacuation plans of nearby cities and counties who may be relying on the same freeways or bridges. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 21B: Ensure that sensitive uses such as schools, childcare centers, parks and playgrounds, housing and community gathering places are protected from adverse impacts of emissions wherever and to the greatest extent possible. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 21C: Protect residents and employees in the neighborhood from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke in indoor and outdoor areas. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 21D: Reduce storm water runoff and seasonal flooding in North Fair Oaks to protect water quality in nearby bodies of water through the use of sustainable and green infrastructure design, construction and maintenance techniques. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 21E: Improve the tree canopy coverage through street tree programs. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 21F: Support regional, state and national initiatives and programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air quality impacts locally. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 21G: Collaborate with Redwood City School District, the Fair Oaks Senior Center, the Fair Oaks Community Center, and other community organizations to promote recycling and composting. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 21H: Ensure that any new developments or redevelopments include “green” features such as rainwater collection, green roofs, bicycle storage, alternative energy systems, and others. Specifically encourage features that reduce reliance on non-renewable sources of energy. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 22D: Require strict assessment and adequate mitigation that meet state and national standards for site cleanup when redeveloping existing industrial and contaminated sites. Status: Ongoing

    • Policy 4C: Over time, reduce the density of fast-food restaurants and liquor stores within North Fair Oaks such that the per capita densities within North Fair Oaks do not exceed 120 percent of the per capita density of each of these business types in the County overall. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4F: Encourage new neighborhood-serving businesses selling healthy foods to locate near underserved residential areas. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4H: Provide assistance to support and maintain businesses that have demonstrated a commitment to selling healthy food to remain in the community, and prioritize retention of these businesses in any new development in North Fair Oaks. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4I: Explore the use of taxes, fees, and other policy measures to increase the cost of unhealthy foods and beverages and use revenues for health prevention programs. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4J: Ensure that all residents of North Fair Oaks live within a half mile of actual walking distance of a full-service grocery store or corner store selling fresh fruits and vegetables. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4L: Increase the number of stores accepting WIC and CalFresh (food stamps) in North Fair Oaks. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4M: Encourage provision of healthy food options at restaurants and other food vendors in North Fair Oaks through incentive programs. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4N: Enact and implement policies and programs to increase availability of nutrition facts for foods served at restaurants in North Fair Oaks. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4P: Provide incentives to encourage mobile vendors and food carts to sell fresh fruits and vegetables and other healthy foods, and limit the number of mobile food vendors selling foods other than fresh fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods within a quarter mile of schools. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 4V: Create incentives for markets and restaurants to use local and/or organic foods. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 5D: Encourage the Redwood City School District to develop and maintain school gardens on K-8 school campuses in North Fair Oaks. Provide educational programs for children, through Redwood City Schools or other forums, to demonstrate how the produce they grow can be used by their families, in their community, and in their school cafeterias. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 5G: Provide support for community groups to develop lease agreements with owners of vacant lots to establish short-term gardens to mitigate blight. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 8C: Explore the potential for developing a regional, multi-modal transit center in North Fair Oaks to expand access for local residents and employers to regional destinations. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 10A: Assess and address pedestrian barriers such as narrow or blocked sidewalks that prevent residents from walking to schools and other amenities in the neighborhood. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 10B: Increase monitoring and enforcement in neighborhoods with rolling curbs to ensure that parked automobiles do not block sidewalks. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 13E: Attract new retail stores and service providers to existing underutilized commercial corridors such as Middlefield Road and El Camino Real. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 16D: Provide monitored spaces for legal graffiti as an outlet for positive artistic expression by neighborhood youth and others. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 16H: Support façade improvement projects. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 17B: Encourage building owners along major corridors such as Middlefield Road to install and turn on outdoor lighting to light entries to their buildings. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 17C: Ensure that vacant lots have adequate lighting at night to prevent these areas from attracting criminal activity. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 17D: Collaborate with Southern Pacific Railroad and Caltrain to increase monitoring of rail rights-of-way and create safe, well-lit legal crossings across tracks. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 18B: Install traffic calming devices on appropriate residential streets near schools and other locations in the community, where such measures are not already in place. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 19A: Encourage design and programming of private and public spaces that will increase the level of activity and the number of residents using spaces as a strategy to deter crime by increasing “eyes on the street.” Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 19F: Work with businesses and residents to increase security and surveillance in high-crime areas. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 19I: Educate residents about Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles—strategies to reduce crime by ensuring that the physical design of communities does not support criminal activity—that they can implement in their neighborhoods to reduce crime. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 19J: Promote active use of public spaces in commercial areas in North Fair Oaks at all times of day to provide “eyes on the street.” Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 19K: Along major retail corridors, encourage business owners to actively use windows that face the street to allow passersby to see in and employees to see out. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 22A: Promote the clean-up and reuse of contaminated and toxic sites to protect both resident health and the local environment. Where the source of the contamination is known, require appropriate mitigation measures and clean-up of sites by the parties responsible. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 22C: Require regional and state agencies to provide adequate mitigation and community benefits as part of any railroad and other infrastructure improvements to address current and future impacts. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 23A: Reduce or eliminate existing objectionable noise sources and require new noise sources to comply with noise standards. Status: Not Initiated

    • Policy 23B: Consider both indoor and outdoor noise levels to protect health and safety. Status: Not Initiated