Los Angeles Equity Atlas Survey

Please share with us what you feel are the best ways to build a healthy, livable Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Equity Atlas outlines 24 desired outcomes, separated into four chapters, or focus areas. Please select the FOUR opportunities below that you feel should be emphasized in the first year of implementation (you may select options from any of the four areas).

For a complete description of each of the outcomes, with accompanying recommendations for action, please visit: www.reconnectingamerica.org/laequityatlas/index.php

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* Chapter 1: Increasing Mobility, Access, and Connectivity

1.1: Major transit hubs can be easily reached by foot, bike or bus

1.2: All Los Angeles County residents have better transportation choices

1.3: Transit service for low and moderate income riders is reinforced and stable

1.4: Children grow up feeling safe walking, biking, taking transit

1.5: People who cannot drive have better transportation options

1.6: Key destinations are connected to the regional transit network

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* Chapter 2: Preserving and Creating Affordable Housing and Managing Neighborhood Change

2.1: More people of all incomes have the ability to live in transit rich locations

2.2: Residents have the ability to stay within their communities with stable housing costs

2.3: Affordable housing opportunities near transit are optimized

2.4: The public sector maximizes opportunities to increase housing production on publicly owned land

2.5: Local and regional land use and transportation planning efforts are inclusive, transparent, and incorporate the needs of current residents and businesses

2.6: The public sector uses a variety of coordinated tools to catalyze development near transit that includes adequate levels of affordable housing.

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* Chapter 3: Supporting Workforce and Economic Development

3.1: The transit network connects the workforce with job centers

3.2: The County’s residents and workers have commutes of a reasonable cost and length

3.3: High quality transit areas support existing job clusters and accommodate future job growth to curb sprawl

3.4: Transit connects low-income workers to the training and education needed to prepare them for higher quality jobs, which also fill the workforce needs of employers

3.5: Small-scale entrepreneurs and local businesses are preserved and fostered near transit

3.6: Local businesses and workers leverage economic and workforce development opportunities from the transit build out

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* Chapter 4: Investing in Healthy Communities

4.1: Residents and visitors enjoy a safe and comfortable environment for walking and biking

4.2: All residents can easily access affordable and healthy food

4.3: All communities have clean air and limited mobile and stationary sources of pollution

4.4: Health care is geographically accessible to all residents

4.5: Communities are free of crime and violence

4.6: All residents have access to active and passive public open space, parks and rivers