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: 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. Zoning can help to slow sprawl. Zoning can encourage certain land uses. For example, mixed use zoning can increase density connecting people and places leading to more active transportation and physical activity. Zoning policies can encourage or require healthier options such as sidewalks, bike lanes, affordable housing or green spaces. Effective zoning policies can increase property values and decrease health inequities.