Prepare an Educated Workforce
Create a Business-Friendly Environment
Enhance our Quality of Life
Implement Smart Land Use
Build 21st Century Infrastructure
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Enhance our Quality of Life
We all want safe neighborhoods, improved mobility, plentiful and affordable housing, clean air and water, and healthy, vibrant communities. A high quality of life also includes promoting social equity to ensure all residents in Los Angeles County have an opportunity to live a healthy life as full participants in the larger community. From an economic development standpoint, quality of life is critical to a healthy and productive workforce. Moreover, many businesses and workers have options about where to locate, and a healthy environment and high quality of life can help attract and retain them.
1. Make our communities more desirable places to live.
Ensure public safety by supporting programs that reduce crime (such as Business Watch, Neighborhood Watch, volunteer patrols, anti-gang programs and rapid response to “broken window” problems).
Improve mobility and reduce traffic congestion and its environmental impacts by employing technology and traffic management strategies to reduce demand and optimize system efficiency; making transit easier and more desirable to use; improving walkability and bicycling; encouraging transit-oriented development and densification where appropriate; offering incentives for carpooling and transit; and improving the jobs/housing balance.
Remove obstacles and create incentives to encourage the construction of a large quantity and wide range of housing of all types (i.e., condos, apartments, townhouses, single-family homes, etc.), with a particular emphasis on adding affordable and workforce housing units.
Promote healthy living by building more parks and expanding recreational activities, and encouraging healthy living through active lifestyles, wellness programs and locally-sourced nutritious food supplies (e.g., community gardens and farmers markets).
Encourage and expand cultural and artistic amenities that celebrate our diversity and attract local and global patrons.
Create healthy, vibrant and strong communities by balancing land use, transportation, economic development, housing and environmental improvement objectives.
2. Use all available resources (i.e., Hope VI funding, etc.) and adopt new approaches to revitalize low-income communities.
Increase community participation in the planning and jobs creation process.
Use smart growth principles to economically integrate communities, maximize the creation of new affordable and workforce housing units, and create more open space for residents.