Title: Suburban Areas
Headings: Suburban Areas
Land Use
Suburban Areas
What is different about suburban health?
What is a sprawl?
How can suburban areas encourage physical activity?
Who does planning in my area?
What about economic development?
Why conserve suburban green space?
Why are zoning policies important to health?
Why is multimodal transportation?
Government partners
Additional resources
Helpful documents

Content: Land trusts safeguard the land from development and sprawl. Families who have passed down the same property from generation to generation often like entering into a land trust to know their family home will remain similar to how they remember it. In addition to improved property values, many people feel their quality of life is improved when there is protected green space nearby. Why are zoning policies important to health? Zoning is a land use planning tool. Zoning has been used in urban, suburban and rural settings. Zoning means what can go where. What goes where can have a major impact on health. Zoning policy can influence neighborhood factors that lead to health outcomes such as physical activity, violent crime and obesity. Zoning can be used to restrict or prohibit certain land uses in certain areas.