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Healthy Eating Active Living

Council Approval

The City Council approved the Healthy Eating Active Living amendments at its Feb. 7, 2012 hearing. The enactment reading took place on March 6, 2012. The amendments became effective on April 5, 2012.

What is Healthy Eating Active Living?

Healthy Eating, Active Living (HEAL) promotes equitable access and opportunities to healthy, affordable food and to active living. It examines how health may be affected by the built environment by promoting access to food options and physical activity through daily routines. This may be encouraged through many methods:

Access to full-service grocery stores
Promoting community-based agriculture through community gardens and edible landscaping
Ensuring a connected sidewalk and bicycle path network
Promoting complete streets
Ensuring access to public transit
Promoting equitable and increased access to parks

The equity element of Healthy Eating Active Living examines how access and opportunities vary in different segments of a community. The community may be examined through different geographies and different traits of the population such as by race, ethnicity, age, and socio-economic status.

Skate Park This effort was funded through the Multnomah County Healthy Department, Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) program.

Project Description

This Council Work Plan project examined the Community Development Plan through a health and equity lens and assessed how current policies related to the built environment achieve healthy eating and active living goals.