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Resolution No. 9566
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto to Adopt Healthy
Social, Cultural and Physical Environments that Promote and Support
Wellbeing and Creative Expression for Ourselves, Our Families and
Our Community in Support a of Healthy City/Healthy Community
WHEREAS, in 1986, the World Health Organization launched Healthy Cities in
Europe and the healthy communities movement takes a broad view of health and human
endeavors to achieve improved health and community quality of life; and
WHEREAS, the League of California cities has been leading the way, encouraging
cities to embrace policies that promote healthier lifestyles and communities; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto, League of California Cities and the Palo Alto
community have a common interest to promote and develop a safe and healthy city; and
WHEREAS, the City is a member of a global community, and benefits in numerous
ways from being a diverse community; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto and its community partners can work together to
understand the relationship between the health of a community and the community culture,
land-use policies, equitable access to healthy food and healthy workplaces; and
WHEREAS, supporting the health of residents and the local work force would
decrease chronic disease and health care costs while also increasing productivity; and
WHEREAS, the City has been designated a Bike Friendly Community by the League
of American Bicyclist with over 65.5 miles of bicycle facilities; and
WHEREAS, the City benefits from an extensive urban forest with tree canopy
covering 37.6% of all land and has been designated a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day
Foundation
WHEREAS, the City has supported healthy and active lifestyles through a
comprehensive parks, open space, urban forest, arts and recreation system and maintains 40
miles of trails, 37 parks, 4,000 acres of open space, an 18-hole golf course, an aquatic center, 32
tennis courts and four community gardens; and
WHEREAS, the City is currently updating its Comprehensive Plan which is expected
to address the health and well-being of the community to the year 2030 by developing health-
related goals and policies that reflect the desires of the community over a wide variety of policy
areas including but not limited to promoting a pedestrian-friendly built environment that
recognizes the importance of walkable neighborhoods, enhancement of the City's robust tree
canopy, and build-out of the City's envisioned pedestrian and bicycle network; and
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WHEREAS, economic and psychological principles have produced a substantial body
of evidence that health is a consistent determinant of self-reported happiness, productivity,
and positive attitudes toward one self, the community and environment;
NOW, THEREFORE, LET IT BE RESOLVED that the City Council hereby recognizes its
role and responsibility in partnership with the community to promote and support a Healthy
City/Healthy Community for Palo Alto residents, workers and visitors and hereby the City of
Palo Alto adopts this Healthy City/Healthy Community Resolution:
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto RESOLVES as follows:
SECTION 1. Healthy Culture
The City of Palo Alto in cooperation with the community is committed to building
and strengthening a healthy community culture, and making every effort to:
1. Encourage engagement and connection that support a welcoming environment and
focus on inclusivity and kindness;
2. Support creativity through visual, performing, and digital arts;
3. Support access to museums, galleries, and musical events;
4. Create opportunities for healthy aging and aging in place;
5. Improve access and awareness to mental health support and education;
6. Seek solutions, promote awareness and compassion for the unhoused;
7. Promote the connection between health and happiness;
8. Support an environment that recognizes the need for all populations to have access
to healthy lifestyles and adopt strategies to remedy inequities;
9. Promote and provide opportunities for social interaction;
10. Support youth development through a connection to the arts, educational
opportunities, and recreational programs, and through service.
SECTION 2. Healthy Environment
The City of Palo Alto is dedicated to the design and construction of parks,
neighborhoods, streets, and business areas that make every effort to:
1. Ensure the Comprehensive Plan and zoning ordinances increase opportunities for
walking, biking and other forms of physical activity;
2. Enact laws and regulations that preserve clean air and water;
3. Prioritize capital improvement projects that increase opportunities for health and
wellbeing;
4. Support, protect and connect us to our natural environment and cultural resources;
5. Address walking and biking connectivity between residential neighborhoods and
schools, parks, recreational resources and retail, and improve multi-model transit;
6. Expand community access to indoor and outdoor public facilities through joint use
agreements with schools and other partners;
7. Incorporate people-friendly design into buildings and spaces such as human scale,
tree-shaded pedestrian passageways, gathering places, that demonstrate favorable
impacts on resident and employee health and quality of life;
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8. Examine racial, ethnic, socio-economic, and geographic disparities in access to
healthy foods, physical activity facilities, tree canopy cover or resources and adopt
strategies to remedy these inequities.
SECTION 3. Healthy Food Access
The City of Palo Alto in cooperation with public and private entities is committed to
healthy food access, and making every effort to:
1. Facilitate the siting of affordable grocery stores and promote community
participation in community gardens and farmers markets to increase access to
healthy food, including fresh fruits and vegetables;
2. Seek opportunities for increased access to health foods, including prioritizing
affordable healthy food retail in development policies, proposals and projects;
3. Include health and wellbeing goals and policies related to access to healthy food in
the Comprehensive Plan update.
SECTION 4. Healthy Workplace
In order to promote wellness within the City of Palo Alto, and to set an example for
other employers, City of Palo Alto pledges to adopt and implement an employee wellness policy
that will:
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1. Offer employee health incentives for healthy eating and physical activity;
2. Encourage walking to meetings and use of stairways;
3. Support emotional and mental wellbeing;
4. Set nutrition standards for vending machines located in city-owned or leased
locations, and for food offered at city events, city-sponsored meetings, served at
city facilities and city concessions, and city programs;
5. Accommodate breastfeeding employees upon their return to work;
6. Adopt ethics standards; Adopt policies that support diversity, promote safe,
positive, inclusive, welcoming work environments that invite creativity;
7. Adopt policies that establish Palo Alto as a leading example of open government
dedicated to the health and well-being of the public.
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SECTION 5. The Council finds that the adoption of this resolution does not meet
the definition of a project under Public Resources Code Section 21065, thus, no environmental
assessment under the California Environmental Quality Act is required.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: December 14, 2015
AYES: BERMAN, BURT, DUBOIS, FILSETH, HOLMAN, KNISS, SCHARFF, SCHMID, WOLBACH
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Molly Stump
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City Attorney
City of Palo Alto
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James Keene
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City of Palo Alto
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Sharon Hanks
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Secretary to City Attorney
City of Palo Alto
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