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There are adults and teenagers walking along the sidewalks and socializing in the outdoor eating areas. Traveling further into the area, some buildings’ outer walls have graffiti. Toward downtown, the roads show sign of age and ware with some cracks that need repair. There are some trash bags outside of the older buildings with dumpsters close by the main road.

Using my previous fieldwork and the Windshield Survey, I was able to drive around the city of Pasadena observing local patrons. I was able to focus my desire for improvements on specific areas I thought would be appropriate and want to focus on specifically for my community health topic. Due to the large amount of people in the city, I was able to go to local parks, outdoor malls and various busy streets. Using questions addressed from the Windshield Survey, I was able to delineate whether the city is primarily rural or suburban. Approximately how much open space is there and whether it is open space or private? Pasadena is a suburban city and has over 7 million square feet of open space (City Data, 2015). The survey also asks how old the buildings and homes are in the community? Are these homes similar or different in structure and architecture? Are there solar panels in use? Are the yards trimmed and neat or overgrown? I used the city 's

Transportation in the region has a long and successful past. However, public transportation has consistently taken a back seat to the personal automobile. There has been a strong core of persons who rely on public transportation to achieve mobility, and governmental

Before you start working on this part of your assessment, carry out some planning by answering the following questions.

From here on, I am going to illustrate my lifestyle in a rural area versus a well developed city. I came from a small village in China. Walking to places has been build on me since I was a little kid; it was one of my habit. Back in the days, nothing seems handy to own. I remembered it was indeed hard to own a small motorcycle, not to speak of cars. On account of that, I treasure walking gratefully. I can walk to my school, relative's house, convenient stores, as well as markets for food. That has been my lifestyle for ten years until I came to the United States. My lifestyle has changed from walking to commuting through buses. San Francisco is a fairly developed city. We can access to every part of SF through muni, and the buses come in very often. Gradually, I start taking the bus to school, to hangouts with friends, and restaurants. I don’t remember when but I started to feel and think buses are so convenient. I rely on buses so much that I became surprisingly lazy. I would choose to take the bus even when the destination is

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| Multiple means of transportation are noted. Most people drive cars to work in the city because the housing becomes more rural and dispersed outside the city limits. Two people are noted to be riding pedal bikes through town. People who live within the city can also walk or take the public bus. The municipality owns the buses and

The residential part of this small community lies on alternative roads and goes about its daily life separated by city blocks from the busyness of the tourist areas.

In the land-use category, neighborhoods with the lowest quality index each had two types of commercial land-uses within the study boundary. Neighborhoods with the highest land-use quality index had at least nine commercial land-uses. Differences in audit observations of land uses and resident perceptions could stem from the fact land uses used were within a 0.75 mile buffer of a neighborhood which in resident perception might not be as close as a 15-minute walk. Higher land-use mix is associated with more walking opportunities as evidenced in literature (Kuzmyak, Baber, & Savory,

There are five categories that we need to consider when assessing. These categories include studying the environmental criminology, scanning for crime problems, analyzing the depth, finding a practical response, and communicating effectively. Assessment is to evaluate the results. The goal or objective in the assessment stage is to provide feedback. It allows the officer to determine if the response(s) selected is working and whether an alternative response should be implemented. Study environmental criminology. Know what is effective and what is not in policing. Be very crime specific. State any and all details. Be guided by the SARA model not led astray. Know that opportunity makes the offender. Also Scan for Crime Problems. Know

Community health assessment is a process of systematic identifying and examining health indicators in a defined population. The purpose of this community health assessment is to gather and analyze information about health status, factors that can have an influence on community members’ health, and needs of the population within the target community. The collected data allow comparing the health status and needs of the residents in the Newmarket Health Centre (NHC) and residents in surrounding neighbourhood with the local health care services and resources available for them, which will help to identify health inequities among community members (Goodman, 2014).The main goal of this community health assessment is the strategic development of solutions to the identified health needs in a community.

The assessment was based on a geographical location of Honoka’a, Hawaii, incorporating the 2,258 residents that currently reside there (suburbanstats.org).

Paddleboats would be popular in the lakes and river. Walking and biking would be the most influenced form of transportation. Neighborhood stores would be encouraged, promoting bike and walk transportation. No mass transportation systems will be found running through the city.

Today’s land use planning and policies are intended to preserve values of cultural resources and enhance sustainable communities and neighborhoods. Among various specific components to achieve it in planning practice, recently improvement of job accessibility and encouragement of mixed land use have been rising topics in the planning field. This is because well-designed and well-utilized these two features through the land use and transportation planning not only can reduce individual vehicle mile travel (VMT) and urban traffic congestion (Ewing and Cervero, 2010), but also can provide lively urban places (Jacobs, 1961). However, although numerous studies have provided empirical evidence of their effectiveness - for example, reducing a physical distance between jobs and housing through these two components increases public transportation use, walking and bicycling (Cervero and Duncan, 2006), little attention has been paid to demand side of the land use components. Namely, little is known about whether the land use features really meet the residents’ needs. Some scholars pointed out that most previous studies have only focused on the supply-oriented policies or planning (Koster and Rouwendal, 2012; Plaut and Boarnet, 2003). However, in order to create sustainable urban places and better living environments given the limited amount of urban land, land use planning or policies carefully reflecting demanders’ needs are essential.

This can also help planning and developing cycling friendly cities in Sri Lanka and provide lessons to learn from Jaffna. This is the broader research question around which the current study is organized.