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MAY - 2013
Built Environment Task Force
2:00 - 3:30 PM, THUR
Pi`ikoi Building
Conference Room A
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Built Environment Task Force
Walking, Biking and Running
"In the early 1900s, planning and public health professionals worked together to protect public health and prevent the spread of disease by developing zoning laws to influence the built environment. However, the disciplines followed different paths with public health focusing on a clinical model, and planning on policy development and physical form. These two fields are re-connecting now as many chronic diseases are associated with the built environment and the individual behaviors that cumulatively lead to negative health outcomes.
Attention and importance is being placed on the built environment and its significant impacts on creating healthy places and healthy people. Research is increasingly demonstrating links between specific community factors, such as the availabilities of parks, accessibility of healthy and affordable produce, and the "walkability" of neighborhoods, and the choices people make in their daily lives.
Healthy people require healthy environments - neighborhoods, schools, childcare centers, and workplaces. People need their environments to be structured in ways that help them access healthy foods and easily incorporate physical activity into their daily routines. Creating healthy environments cannot be done in isolation by any one organization or field. It requires coordinated and comprehensive efforts by multiple organizations, leaders, fields and sectors."
Botchwey et. al.
Get Fit Kauai's Built Environment Task Force provides a response to that need.
The 2009 Draft Lihue Town Core Urban Design Plan is complete and may be viewed here.
Designing Healthy Communities Television Miniseries To Air in Early 2012
A preview of Designing Healthy Communities, a four-part public television miniseries highlighting best-practice design alternatives to improve our nation's public health, is available at here. In the series, Richard Jackson, MD, MPH, looks at the impact the built environment has on obesity, diabetes, heart, asthma, cancer, and depression. Dr. Jackson connects bad community design with our country's burgeoning health costs, then analyzes and illustrates what citizens are doing about this urgent crisis. The miniseries will air in May 2012 on public television stations.
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The University of North Carolina Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Center for Training and Research Translation, has completed a report on "Hawaii Complete Streets Policy", December, 2011. The report recognizes the efforts of Get Fit Kauai and the Built Environment Task Force in implementing the Complete Streets policy for Kauai County, with support from the Healthy Hawaii Initiative, State Department of Health, through the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
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Michael Moule, PE, TE, PTOE, Principal Transportation Engineer with Nelson/Nygaard Consulting Associates Inc., spent time with County stakeholders and other agencies during a week-long visit on Kauai, October 17 - 21, 2011. Moule has over 18 years of progressive traffic and transportation engineering experience, including traffic calming, conceptual design for
“Complete Streets,” and planning improved bicycle and pedestrian facilities. He has experience leading community planning processes and training sessions to give individuals the basic skills they need to develop and review street design solutions.
During his visit, Moule offered his technical assistance and expertise to key staff with the County Department of Public Works, Planning Department, and Housing and Transportation agencies to address the County's Complete Streets policy and future implementation. The workshops and sessions were sponsored by Get Fit Kauai, Healthy Hawaii Initiative, and Communities Putting Prevention To Work.
The State Complete Streets law was enacted in 2009 - Act 54 (SB 718). Complete Streets provides for equal consideration of all transportation modes in roadway projects: vehicles, pedestrian, bicycle, and transit. It enhances transportation choice, increases accessibility for the community, especially our youth, elderly, disabled, and offers environmental, health, and public safety benefits.
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Michael Moule Workshop |
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YOU ARE INVITED
Kilauea Transportation Alternatives Talk Story Session with Dan Burden
Monday, September 19th, 2:00 - 3:30 pm
Kilauea Neighborhood Center
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Kilauea Walking Tour with Dan Burden
Monday, September 19th, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Kilauea Neighborhood Center
Dan is looking forward to spending time in Kilauea and helping us identify some alternative transportation needs as well as sharing a holistic vision for creating a healthy, pedestrian and bicycle-friendly community.
Dan Burden has had 25 years of experience in developing, promoting, and evaluating alternative transportation facilities, traffic calming practices, and sustainable community design. He specializes in transportation and land use planning, and the research and implementation of pedestrian, bicycle, traffic-calming, and street improvement projects.
A former National Geographic photographer, Burden once led a bicycling expedition from Alaska to Argentina. Burden founded Bikecentennial and, along with his wife and thirty others, worked with 90 governmental agencies to develop the longest recreation trail in the world - the 4,300 mile-long TransAmerica Bicycle Trail. In 1977 Burden worked to create the Bicycle Federation of America and served as its director for its first two years of operation.
Burden was celebrated by Time Magazine (See June 18th 2001 issue) as one of the world's six most important civic innovators; in a more recent nationally circulated Associated Press article, as well as series of releases on NBC Dateline, The Discovery Channel, and ABC's Peter Jennings programs.
"Of the 1400 communities I have walked, I have not found one where designing for the car has made it a successful place. Indeed, the most successful villages, towns and cities in America are those designed before the car was invented, and where the least tinkering has been done since." - Dan Burden
We are indeed very fortunate to have the opportunity to experience Dan Burden's expertise, energy and enthusiasm up close and personal right here in Kilauea! It's a dream come true.
Building Community Through Transportation Articles
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Kilauea Walking Tour |
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The Kauai County Council unanimously adopted a Complete Streets policy through Resolution No. 2010-48 on September 15, 2010. Kauai's resolution is the first to come after 2009's passage of a statewide Complete Streets law and is a great first step to ensure that the law's intent becomes a reality across the state. Get Fit Kauai led the charge, working closely with the Mayor and participating in a number of meetings about the policy. Get Fit Kauai was joined by several county agencies, including the Planning Department, Public Works, and the Police Department, Kauai Path, AARP, Grove Farm Company, Inc., Kaua'i Economic Development Board, Malama Kauai, and several Kauai residents in bringing about the resolution's passage. Currently the task force is developing an implementation strategy that focuses on ordinance and procedural changes. See The Garden Island article.
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Resolution
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Sidewalks and bicycle lanes on Kaana St |
Our goal is to ensure that the update of all transportation plans relevant to Kaua'i will support the creation of a connected multi-modal transportation system. These plans include the State Long-range Land Transportation Plan, the State Pedestrian Master Plan, the State Bicycle Implementation Plan, the County Multi-modal Transportation Plan, and the County General Plan and Regional Development Plan Updates.
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Over 80 people attended a Complete Streets Public Workshop at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall from 6 - 8 pm on April 20, 2011. The workshop was hosted by Get Fit Kauai (GFK), in cooperation with Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) and the National Complete Streets Coalition (NCSC). See full report attached.
Complete Streets are planned, designed and operated to enable safe access for all users including motorists, bus riders, pedestrians and bicyclists, and people with disabilities.
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Get Fit Kauai is built on the integration and involvement of community partners. Community partners and volunteers are the key to the successes of this organization.
Built Environment Meeting Minutes
Task Force Member Directory
Marie Williams - Chair
County of Kaua'i Planning Department
Sara Bowen - Vice-Chair
Kauai Natural Resources Consulting
Ted Blake
Malama Koloa
Bev Brody
Get Fit Kauai Health and Built Environment Facilitator
Tim Bynum
Kaua'i County Council Member
Dave Caylor
County of Kauai Department of Parks & Recreation
James Charlier, AICP
Resource Member, Charlier Associates, Inc.
Neil Clendeninn
Lihue Business Association
Tommy Contrades
County of Kauai Department of Public Works (DPW)
Larry Dill/Lyle Tabata
County of Kauai Department of Public Works
Pat Griffin
Lihue Business Association
Daryl Date
Kauai Fire Safety Bureau
Esti Grinpas
Community Member
Ka`aina Hull
County of Kaua'i Planning Department
Lea Kaiaokamalie
County of Kaua'i Planning Department
Patrick Kaihara / Doug Haigh
County of Kaua'i DPW Building Division
Wally Kudo
County of Kaua'i DPW Engineering Division
Curtis Langstaff
Kauai Fire Department
Kathy Leonard
GFK Administrative Assistant
Jenn Linton
Get Fit Kauai Safe Routes to School Coordinator
Celia Mahikoa
County of Kaua'i Transportation Agency
Ray McCormick
State Department of Transportation
Dee Morikawa
State Representative
Thomas Noyes
Department of Health (Kauai District Health Office)
Barbara Pendragon
County of Kauai Housing Agency
Christina Pilkington
County of Kauai Americans with Disabilities Act
Ben Sullivan
County of Kauai Office of Economic Development
Kealoha Takahashi
County of Kaua'i Agency on Elderly Affairs
Ken Taylor
Community Member
Ben Welborn
Landmark Consulting
Robert Westerman
Kauai Fire Department, Fire Chief
Diane Zachary
Kaua'i Planning and Action Alliance
JoAnn Yukimura
Kaua'i County Council
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