HLP City Family Friendly Toolkit


Collection of Ideas, Documents, and Case Studies that cities can implement to make their city more family friendly.



Housing

Housing Characteristics: Affordable, Safe, Acccessible, Easy Connectivity to Daily Needs, Close to Jobs, Multi-modal Transportation Options, Environmentally Friendly, Balance Between Private and Public Space, Encourage Social Interaction, Exposure to Other Age Demographics, Mixed Income

Transportation

Transportation Characteristics: Affordable, Safe, Easy Connectivity to Daily Needs, Close to Jobs, Multi-modal Transportation Options, Environmentally Friendly

Food

Food Characteristics: Locally Grown, Affordable, Minimize Water Use, Healthy, Easy Access, Double as an Economic Generator

Economic

Economic Characteristics: Apply to the city and to residents, focused on solutions that Reduce Costs, Increase Revenues, and Creates New Economic Opportunities

Education

Education Characteristics: Applies to improving educational opportunities for all ages from pre-school to continuing education to personal hobbies

At the Downtown Colorado Inc. Conference in Sept. 2012 we presented a number of toolkit items. View the Slides(11.3M) Toolkit items start on page 14.

This white paper is a simplified example for how to combine the Scorecard output with toolkit items to use as input to updating a city's comprehensive plan. A number of toolkit items are included in this example. White Paper(1.2M)